He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give here something, charity for instance.

the policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball net were still in place, though the nets were gone.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

War is what happens when language fails.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.