You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.