Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Smiles are the language of love.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.