It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

After 30 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you look at your partner sound asleep next to you and think they've still got potential.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden.(Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

There's only one thing worse than a droopy, round, lace-trimmed, too small, too short, mosquito net with holes… the exact same thing in pink.

On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.