Destruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEIt was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENEThe next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEWe never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
GRAHAM GREENEWould the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEHe entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE