...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair.

To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Longinus was suddenly aware of her biting his neck, and he experienced the agony and the ecstasy of her dark kiss.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.