Suffering gives us no special rights.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine