I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

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

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.

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.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.