Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

The last Christian died on a cross.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.