“In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.”

“If its not one god its another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.”

“Most men overestimate themselves. Its the only way they can reproduce. Its why were all here, us humans. Overestimation.”

“Why ruin the present by talking about the past?”

“I believe in the goddess of mystery. And shes always pregnant!”

“No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect...”

“In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.”

“I believe in the goddess of mystery. And shes always pregnant!”

“Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”