I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw