Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
Graham GreeneHave you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
Graham GreeneMen have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
Graham GreeneOur heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.
Graham Greene