History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.