How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

No sauce equals appetite.

I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

The first casualty in every war is truth.