The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.