With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.