America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivab….

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life..

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera des….

Sleep always eluded the pursuer..

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m..

There aren't many idealists in politics..