Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.