Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. - Hannah Arendt

boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.