Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.