“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”

“It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.”

“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.”

“We have to face it at last. We're not all human.”

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

“Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.”

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”