My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.