Henry Williamson

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.