“The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.”

“One bullet can really fuck up your day.”

“Fate is for people who are too lazy to do anything”

“People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.”

“He smiles shyly at Leah. Aged ten he had a smile! Nathan Bogle: the very definition of desire for girls who had previously only felt that way about certain fragrant erasers. A smile to destroy the resolve of even the strictest teachers, other people's parents. Now she sees ten-year-olds and cannot believe they have inside them what she had inside her at the same age.”

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”

“ I am saying to you that to me the Constitution of the United States is just as much from my Heavenly Father as the Ten Commandments ”