“Nobody has any rights unless they've got a machine gun.”

“Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.”

“For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.”

“You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”

“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.”

“You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.”