Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.