It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.