My life wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t see any passionate reason to love it.

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Differences disappear when faced with death.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours.

I should be writing ...

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

The big art is our life.

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.