I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.