I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

travel is compost for the mind

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.