When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.