You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

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

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.