I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

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

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?