“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ”
“You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.”
“There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).”
“Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.”
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.”