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.

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.

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

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

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.

I was about to run, possibly fight, definitely scream...

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

I am. I think. I will.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.