“Sort of pregnant. Sort of dead. Sort of Jewish. These are impossibles.”
“If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”
“That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of their task.”
“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
“No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother's presence. Monks haven't the sort of patience required.”
“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”