Graham Greene

“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 situation.”

“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.”

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“Failure too is a form of death.”

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”

“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.”

“No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.”