He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.

He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.

Travel was a species of warfare.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.