The real Annie Malone was not a light-skinned woman.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
