Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.