For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.