"Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank."

"Even today, as regards East Timor, where our brutal Indonesian satellite have very possibly killed as many people as did the Khmer Rouge, there is a virtually complete blackout of information in the F…"

"When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some othe…"

"The years had a way of piling themselves one atop the next, unnoticed and uncounted; that was how young men turned into old ones."

"Since mankind has, for the most part, rejected the rule of Law, it has experienced a series of disasters which it has interpreted as 'acts of God'. These 'acts of men' bear little resemblance to the p…"