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Barney’s thoughts moved from love to breakfast with a readiness that made him feel slightly ashamed.
“Nothing is permanent, except change.”
The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.
“Her Majesty the queen believes that religion was given to us for consolation in this life and salvation in the next, and that we may disagree about it but we should never let it be a cause of violence between one Englishman and another.”
He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties.
“You said that there are no saints in politics, but imperfect people can make the world a better place.”
But the dead live on in our imaginations. I think that’s the true meaning of ghosts.
