“Trees're always a relief, after people.”

“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”

“After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.”

“After the nuclear war, kids like them’ll rule what’s left. It’ll be hell.”

“Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.”

“The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed”