Death was far more certain than God.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Innocence is a kind of insanity

All good novelists have bad memories.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.