💬 Quotes

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"It is a matter of common occurrence in this world, that a man’s evil deeds, even if they are forgotten by the world, are not forgotten by his own conscience."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"Some people say that he was a very wicked man; but I, for one, would not have his sins on my head for all the wealth in the world."

"The law is a ass—a idiot."

"If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience."

"The past is a pool of darkness. We are always throwing things into it, wishing, hoping, waiting to see what floats to the surface."

"All plots tend to move deathward. This is in the nature of plots. Political plots, love plots, narrative plots."

"He wanted to know how a man could be so alone that he would have to kill a president to get attention."

"We are not sure what happened, but we are beginning to see how it happened, and that is a kind of truth."

"The CIA is a way of understanding the world. It is a way of shaping it, of making it turn the way we want it to turn."

"If you want to change the world, you have to be willing to be the one who stands outside it."

"Things like that, there’s no point in dwelling on them, Bruno. Once something’s finished, it’s finished. You can’t change it."

"We don’t have the luxury of thinking. Some people make all the decisions for us."

"I think there must be a fence. A fence running along the whole length of the camp, separating us from them. I just don't know why it's there."

"Those people... well, they’re not people at all, Bruno."

"I’m very sorry, Shmuel. I don’t know what I was thinking. I’m ashamed of myself."

"Of course, all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in this day and age."

"Everyone wants to be the protagonist of a tragedy, but nobody wants to be the person who actually has to mop up the blood."

"The internet didn't create the monster; it just gave the monster a microphone and a permanent audience."