What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

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.

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

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.