I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out."pg 364

You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be."pg 354

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."pg 338

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be.