Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams