It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
“The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.”
“I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.”