“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.”
“There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.”
“I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.”
“In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.”
“There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.”
“Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery”