Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Affluence means influence.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.