It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.