In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back