When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.
All power corrupts but some must govern.
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.