The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The seed of everything is in everything else.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That...
Information is power. But like all power, there are...
