The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. - Graham Greene

At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

"God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good."