Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.