Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.