I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.