The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.
either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
To know Paris is to know a great deal.
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.