I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.