Graham Greene

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? ”

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. ”

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ”

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ”

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. ”

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. ”

Failure too is a form of death. ”

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. ”

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. ”

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ”