In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.