Nick Azzaretti

“for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

“The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“Its designer had a gilt complex, and had tried every trick with gold paint, curly pillars and expensive drapes to make it look less like a ship and more like a boudoir that had collided with a highly suspicious type of theater.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids