“In order to hate imperialism, you have got to be part of it.”
“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”
“In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.”
“You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
“He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.”