“In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”

“Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say.Now everyone's got something to say.”

“The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".”

“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”

“It ain't have no place in the world that exactly like a place where a lot of men get together to look for work and draw money from the Welfare State while they ain't working. Is a kind of place where hate and disgust and avarice and malice and sympathy and sorrow and pity all mix up. Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.”

“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle”