It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.