When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.

I'm never the kind of person to say what somebody else should do. I'm very much do what you feel to do.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

One should not be adventurous being a woman.

People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.