It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.
But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it. '
I really like it. I really, really like it. Ah, ah, ah, ah. . . buried alive. . . buried alive.