“Well, now you can see how sensible it is not to start your day by guessing what might happen... After all, how long would I have had to go on guessing before I guessed this?”

“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”

“He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.”

“Allan looked at the bus and then at the suitcase, then again at the bus and then again at the suitcase. It has wheels, he said to himself. And there's a strap to pull it by too. And then Allan surp...”

“He turned to take one last look at the Old Peoples Home that until a few moments ago he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other tim...”

“His experience was that Justice was rarely as just as it ought to be. The others agreed.”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”