Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bamboozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.

— Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

— Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

— Graham Greene

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

— Graham Greene

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

— Graham Greene

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

— Graham Greene

You don't bless what you love... It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands, and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway... We have to bless what we hate... It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.

— Graham Greene

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

— Graham Greene

You should dream more, Mr. Worm old. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

— Graham Greene

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

— Graham Greene