There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.

Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.

And so everything depends on you, Bertie. Bishop or rook. Your life or mine. Do what you believe you have to do.

...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

There is a direct relationship between the number of times you attempt a task and the likelihood of success.

Duty over fear.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.