Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.