“It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.”

“History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.”

“What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.”

“Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.”

“Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.”

“There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.”

“Most people are great, I just avoid the ones who think they are.”