Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.
I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.
California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices