“ I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication. John Mole
“ What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire. John Mole
“ It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none. John Mole
“ The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language. John Mole
“ It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show. John Mole
“ For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards. John Mole
“ Greek is a wonderfully rich and expressive language, which makes it one of the harder of the European tongues to learn. The active vocabulary is much bigger than other European languages. The construc… John Mole
“ When we westerners pray we join our hands, close our eyes, kneel, hunch up and put our hands over our faces to close up our bodies. Our God is inside us, his universe inside our heads. When Orthodox C… John Mole
“ I prefer not to elaborate on the various stages of our dealings over the next few days - disbelief, anger, recrimination, the raking up of old sores, bitter silence and so on - but I can say that they… John Mole
“ For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to talk to, nothing to do, no television to view, nothing in the street to watch and… John Mole
“ Whisper it softly, but many Greeks, including clergy, welcomed the Ottomans. On the whole Muslim rulers have been much more tolerant of infidels than their Christian counterparts have. As long as thei… John Mole
