I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.