Quotations

“I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.” Tucker Carlson

"At the beginning of the week I went up to Rome because the Pope had sent me a message that he would like to see me. It was all very nice & informal – not a bit like the Vatican of Pius XII (when I get home I’ll send you a horrible photo of me & the Pope). The Pope talked to me for twenty minutes about why he liked my novels! He had read The Power & the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, Brighton Rock, & Stamboul Train! He gave me a rosary in a nice little case for Vivien [Greene, his wife], a medal of himself for me, & a beautiful leather bound edition of The Gospels in an edition limited to 140 copies. All the monsignori were very cordial, & the Pope didn’t go in at all for a talk about “the duties” of a writer. He said there would be always things in my books which offended some Catholics, but not to bother about that."As for Graham Greene writing to his lover Catherine Walston after meeting the Pope Paul VI on 13 July 1965