Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.