There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.