176 Quotes by Sebastian Faulks

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.

The partition between love and anger is thin. I suppose it's a need to protect the self from further wounding that makes people scream at the one they love.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

She was so beautiful I had to move away.

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.