those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.