Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.