“I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.”

“The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.”

“You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.”

“Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.”

“ A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.”

“Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”

“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”

“I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.”

“A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.”