Simon Mawer Quotes

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.