Mike Lambert

“But it’s heathenism,’ Mrs Smith said. ‘Who am I to say? I believe no more in the Christian God than I do in the gods of Dahomey. The Voodooists believe in both.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“I cannot see much good in the world or much likelihood of good. There seems to me a definite bias in human nature towards ill, towards the immediate convenience, the ugly, the cheap ... I rub my hands and say 'Hurry up, you foulers of a good world, and destroy yourselves faster'.”
― Paul Theroux, Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984

“We have become cynical about progress because of the terrible things we have seen men do during the last forty years. All the same through trial and error the amoeba did become the ape. There were blind starts and wrong turnings even then, I suppose. Evolution today can produce Hitlers as well as St John of the Cross.”
― Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

“The doctor opened the window and the noise of the city swelled all at once. The brief, repeated whine of a mechanical saw rose from a neighboring shop. Rieux shook himself. That was where certainty lay, there in this daily work. The rest hung on threads, and on insignificant movements, you couldn’t stop for it. The main thing was to do his job well.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague