I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.

In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.