All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.

A screaming comes across the sky.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.