If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

Strong words resonate.

Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.

I thought that was fantastic. We were working on that the other night, actually.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Iggy Azalea, I can't really get into her. Because it's just not real to me.

In battle, topography is fate.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.