Velia Topor

“Maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

“But I dog sit for those people. Once they notice he’s gone, they will ask me if I’ve seen him.”
“So what?”
“I pride myself in being an honest man. That’s what!”
― Cricket Rohman, Wanted: An Honest Man

“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is so profoundly, so irritatingly typical of himself, instantly familiar, like a signature, like a tissue scar or some deformation in a private place.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

“In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow; a hundred thousand more were hurt.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima