Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

I am happy to see you, Maso

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.