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There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.
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There aren't many idealists in politics.
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I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.
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Sleep always eluded the pursuer.
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America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
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There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.