“Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn’t need a why. Who or even what is ample.”

“Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”

“Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?”

“The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.”

“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”

“We were, to quote the proverb, "The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...”