What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

Suffering is the common lot of man.

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

I feel sorry for you, Detective Esteban. Because I'm all out of patience, and you're all out of time. I'm sure we'll see each other again someday. In Hell. Save a seat for me.

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

I know that I do deserve good things.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.