In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
Graham GreeneInsecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
Graham GreeneHe felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham GreeneInnocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham GreeneHowever great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.
Graham Greene