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"... if he can't handle the fact that you screwed up one time in twenty years, then he isn't worth the time you've put in for him."

"I owe you one."
"We always owe each other one."

"Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize most critically. And never to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy."

The whole point of the socialized human being was to not give in to that sort of impulse, regardless of how belligerently an opponent might behave.

That is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

"I have a pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past. One day you'll discover for yourself how strength seeps away, but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business."

"Friendship - my definition - is built on two things," he said. "Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble."