There was a horrible, blood-freezing scream somewhere very close. I suddenly recognised it as my own, but I couldn’t stop it. And I looked at the men, the brave and beautiful men beside me, running in...
THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,
Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She’s
Powerful people have no regrets.
It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the oce...
I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.
Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.
Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is tha...
«Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает».
To miłość czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawiść małymi
Through his thick, black hair.
Kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white
When we say that this definition of good and evil is objective, what we mean is that it is as objective as we can be at this time, and to the best of our knowledge about the universe. This definition...
What characterises the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I’m lonelier and wise...
There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the percep...
The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as...
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
I’m lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would’ve annihilated it...