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Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Henry Graham Greene

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate ... if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

— Henry Graham Greene

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

— Henry Graham Greene

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? ... Like a marriage from which love has gone ... And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

— Henry Graham Greene

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

— Henry Graham Greene

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

— Henry Graham Greene

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

— Henry Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

— Henry Graham Greene

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

— Henry Graham Greene