..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

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.

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.

...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.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits.

I don't feel pain. I ain't got time for that. I let other people feel pain for me.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.