Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.