“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”

“There it was, a sign above a shop that said 221B BAKER STREET. My mouth hung open. I looked around at the ordinary street and the white-painted buildings, looking clean in the morning rain. Where were the fog, the streetlights, the gray atmosphere? The horses pulling carriages, bringing troubled clients to Watson and Holmes? I had to admit I had been impressed with Big Ben and all, but for a kid who had devoured the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, this was really something. I was on Baker Street, driving by the rooms of Holmes and Watson! I sort of wished it were all in black and white and gray, like in the movies.”

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”

“Ein WortEin Wort, ein Satz -: aus Chiffren steigenerkanntes Leben, jäher Sinn,die Sonne steht, die Sphären schweigen,und alles ballt sich zu ihm hin.Ein Wort - ein Glanz, ein Flug, ein Feuer,ein Flammenwurf, ein Sternenstrich -und wieder Dunkel, ungeheuer,im leeren Raum um Welt und Ich.”

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”

“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”