Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
invaders always destroy libraries.
Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.