The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.