Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.