The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

Love means having something to betray.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.