I played him the Goldberg Variations. If one wishes to reduce a sensitive German to tears there is no surer lachrymatory. - John Fowles

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant’s Whore.

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.