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

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

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

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.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.