The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

You put your time where your priority is.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.