“No one likes an ugly crier. It's uncomfortable for all parties involved.”

“The girl might be gorgeous under normal circumstances, but she was an ugly crier.”

“.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.”

“Sex with Panda was like being in a porno movie but without a third party involved.”

“I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.”

“...Mirek rewrote history just like the Communist Party, like all political parties, like all peoples, like mankind. They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past." (P. 30)”