Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late. - Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit.