It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Death is the room that is always empty.