“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

“Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.”

“People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.”

“Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.”

“God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.”

“God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”