Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.