Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.

To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in the desert when it is gone.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life - - is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not...

Nice jewelry and a boy's corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Passion is a rare flower that grows on the precipice of death. A few snatch it, and the rest are like an ox chewing its cud in a field.

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough, and sometimes the good just have bad days.

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt...

Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

I kill things... and eat them. Axel Reid

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

An honest man is always a child.

You never think it's going to happen to you, do you?

What is it about guys named Adam?

... and the only reason he came out at all, during that period after he left Frankie, when he wanted to go away and hide forever, was the crazy compulsion with which we resolved all the tangled...

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to...

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper...

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.