Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

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

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

You cannot love without intuition.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.