The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous. - Graham Greene

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises ...

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity— that was a quality God's image carried with it.

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.