Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because its complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and hes able to keep processing that as well. – V. S. Naipaul
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. – Clare Short
