“Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.”

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our ...”

“It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.”

“I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.”

“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And,...”

“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”

“Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.”

“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”

“I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis th...”

“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.”

“Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate crea...”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”