I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
To try to be better is to be better.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.