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To hope, Hope in what, Hope, just hope, one reaches a point where there is nothing but hope, and that is when we discover that hope is everything.
p. 108
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
A man must read widely, a little of everything or whatever he can, but given the shortness of life and the verbosity of the world, not too much should be demanded of him. Let him begin with those titles no one should omit, commonly referred to as books for learning, as if not all books were for learning, and this list will vary according to the fount of knowledge one drinks from and the authority that monitors its flow.
p. 117
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
p. 47
"I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me."
"I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in—like peace and justice and freedom."
"A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to."
"If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town..."
"Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie."
"We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling."
"We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves."
"People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine."





