Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

A writer doesn__ solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees...

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.