Whatever you do, crush the infamy

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term