A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.