Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.