“Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.”

“There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.”

“What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce asurly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent”

“Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.”

“The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believein a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that.”

“Everybody wants to touch you all the time. I'm the only one who can't when I want to be the only one that can.”