We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.