She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.