“Shin: a device for finding things in the dark.”

“You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.”

“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”

“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”

“Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.”

“The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.”

“There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.”