I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.