This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.