If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

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.

In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.