The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
