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

When we are not sure, we are alive.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

...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.

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

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt