“I have met the town idiot, who declares that all the automobiles in the world are of less value than a single human life. I have met the most harmless inhabitant of Pine Beach: a wise man.”

“According to what he tells us himself, Mrs. Fryxell used to say of Napoleon: 'I wish he could be punished for all his slaughter by having to go through a childbirth for every human being who was shot on his account'. (A. Fryxell: Min historias historia).”

“The single most violent person in the history of the world is the president of the United States.”

“Socialism is based on the notion that collaboration and sharing are more productive, humane, and moral than competition and privatization.”

“Should I apologize to my mother or the world for not listening to her when I was younger?”

“To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry.”

“Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.”