War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.