“One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.”

“I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.”

“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.”

“Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.”

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.”

“Keeping your face to the sunshine and your vibes positively high, Helps one in hard times use a smile to replace their sigh”