“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”

“The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.”

“Sometimes there is nothing you can do.”

“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his ...”

“There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. Theres a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhereit doesnt all ...”

“The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I ha...”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“In these myriad ways, we carved out our lives in Los Angeles. Yet falling asleep was often an act of travel, taking me quickly by the hand so that I am instantly surrounded by verdant foliage, the ...”

“Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.”

“Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.”