A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.