Evelyn Anthony quotes:

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

Sleep always eluded the pursuer.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life ...

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.