“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”

“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”

“You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.”

“The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost…Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.”

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”

“You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”

“Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.”

“Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”