The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.