Status Updates From A Woman in Berlin

"When it comes to heating, other people's furniture burns better than your own."

"These days, too, there are times when I feel I can't be sure of anything, that nothing is true, that Adolf may have long ago escaped by submarine to Spain and that Franco is putting him up in a castle where he's sketching plans for Truman about getting the Russians back to Russia. But one thing is beyond doubt--the deep-down feeling of defeat, the certainty of our being at the mercy of the victors."