A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.