H.M. Forester Quotes

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well, illusive with an I and elusive with an E. At best, narcotics do no more than promote bonhomie and give you a temporary taste of what freedom might be like; and drugs take you into another sub-level of, or sub-culture in, the same old game. The same old game, but with additional consequences. And at worst, well ... suffice it to say that you really, really do not want to go there.

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.

Smoking is suicide by instalments.

Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?