“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
“When bitterness and emptiness are all that remains, a person tends to hold on to them with both hands.”
“Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing”
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”
“...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.”