I Wasn't Convinced A Shop Girl Would

I Think That One Is Constantly Startled By The Things That Appear Before You On The Page When You're Writing.

At First, There Is Something You Expect Of Life. Later, There Is What Life Expects Of You. By The Time You Realize These Are The Same, It Can Be Too Late For Expectations. What We Are Being, Not What We Are To Be. They Are The Same Thing.

Sometimes, Surely, Truth Is Closer To Imagination Or To Intelligence, To Love Than To Fact? To Be Accurate Is Not To Be Right.

The United Nations Emerged As A Temple Of Official Good Intentions, A Place Where Governments Might - Without Abating Their Transgressions - Go To Church; A Place Made Remote - By Agreed Untruth And Procedural Complexity, And By Tedium Itself - From The Risk Of Intense Public Involvement.

That Was The Trouble With Experience; It Taught You That Most People Were Capable Of Anything, So That Loyalty Was Never Quite On Firm Ground -- Or, Rather, Became A Matter Of Pardoning Offenses Instead Of Denying Their Existence.