If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

All men are born free: just not for long.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

You should have died when I killed you.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

Out of the Mess comes a Message that makes you Sage

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

Time passes, but memories linger.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Nothing can grow under big trees.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)