Suleman Kon

“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”
― Douglas Adams

“When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference”
― Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander