Nick

“Unlike him, she retained a kind of hope. Hope is an instinct only the reasoning mind can kill. An animal never knows despair.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Everything that happens is intrinsically like the man it happens to.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

“God's best joke, so far as he himself was concerned, was not being there. Simply not there. Neither God nor the devil. For if the devil had been there, God would have been there too. All that was there was the memory of a sordid disgusting stupidity and now an enormous knockabout. First an affair of dust-bins and then a farce. But that was what the devil really was: the spirit of dust-bins. And God? God in that case would be simply the absence of dust-bins.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point