The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

Live can only be fully lived by faith in the spirit of love.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention.

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.