Innocence is a kind of insanity

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.