Quotes from A.L. Rowse

It is not surprising that with the experience of our own age, suffering should come foremost, and out of suffering, in the end, emergence, fortitude, loyalty, faith in each other, overwhelming love.

O moon that makes restless the hearts of men, That lays an insane beam upon their mind, And laughing makes men mad. - Sunday Night: Truro

I don't want to have my money scalped off me to maintain other people's children. I don't like other people; I particularly don't like their children; I deeply disapprove of their proliferation making the globe uninhabitable. The fucking idiots – I don't want to pay for their fucking.