To Possess Another Language Is To Possess

Blackmail Is More Effective Than Bribery.

I Move My Lips When I Read -- I'm Painfully Slow -- So I Like Really Good English.

By Repetition, Each Lie Becomes An Irreversible Fact Upon Which Other Lies Are Constructed.

You Have No Idea How Humiliating It Was, As A Boy, To Suddenly Have All Your Clothes, Your Toys, Snatched By The Bailiff. I Mean We Were A Middle-class Family, It's Not As If It Was Happening Up And Down The Street. It Made Me Ashamed, I Felt Dirty.

It Struck Him As A Bit Unfair That, At The Age Of Eight, He Should Have Manifested The Same Sense Of Solitude That Haunted Him At Forty-three.