In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with you Where you don't want to go, you have to go And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.