He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In...
You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to ble...
They killed him because he was too innocent to live.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and books...
If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever s...
Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out th...
Human love can be only a pale reflection of the emotion that God must feel for what He has created
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Married people grow like each other.
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
And then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situat...
We are possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.
I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate,...
Death was far more certain than God.
When we are not sure we are alive.