In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.