The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

Reality is always so obstructive.