Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.

There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.