If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.