If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.