If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

The Lord is your shepherd

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.