“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”
“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”
“Sometimes Fate does something so brilliant that you forget for a minute what a cruel bitch she can be.”
“Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.”
“He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader.”
“You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.”