It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham GreeneTo comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
Graham GreeneIt is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
Graham GreenePeople talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene