Quotes by : John Banville

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like....

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.

Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.

We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are fragments....

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while,....

He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule....

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience,....

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a....

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a....