If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.

I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to talk to, nothing to do, no television to view, nothing in the street to watch and even the middle distance holds nothing to stare at. To be seen carrying a book in public, let alone reading one, is a mark of eccentricity or foreignness.