You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

- Simon Mawer

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

- Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

- Simon Mawer

All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed …

- Simon Mawer

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

- Simon Mawer

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive…

- Simon Mawer

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers be…

- Simon Mawer

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

- Simon Mawer

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

- Simon Mawer