They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.
Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.
I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.
As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were … things … about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in...
Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the fl...
Without preamble.
Warmed by the cold sea around him.
We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.
There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.
There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.
The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without dis...
One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.
Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men,
I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!
For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.
Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.
Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.
Two people were not one,
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.
Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does.