“Mobs have passions, not brains.”

“Blood and brain tissue clung to the wet rock like the refuse of a sad picnic.”

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”

“If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.”

“You have to live to really know things, my love”

“Eagles are extinct," grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.”

“... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”