No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.