“In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.”

“Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.”

“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”

“Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? Its this. Hes thinking that he cant win the war if he doesnt keep the people on his side. Hes thinking that he cant keep the people on his side ...”

“He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on ...”

“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”