You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.