Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.