Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.