It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.