"WWJD about the dirty dishes in the break room?"

"When poor people are thinking, they shouldn't be disturbed. Perhaps their idea will still occur to them."

"What's the use of telling someone that I am changing?"

"I have an interior that I never knew of. Everything passes into it now. I don't know what happens there."

"These are the noises. But there is something here that is more dreadful: the silence."

"I imagine that during great fires such a moment of extreme tension must sometimes occur: the jets of water fall back, the firemen stop climbing the ladders, no one moves. Soundlessly a black cornice pushes forward overhead, and a high wall, with flames shooting up behind it, leans forward, soundlessly. Everyone stands and waits, with raised shoulders and faces contracted above their eyes, for the terrifying crash. The silence here is like that."

"Meseems I hear, when I do hear sweet music"

"The dreadful cries of murder'd men in forests"

"I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life"

"Long since I hate the night, more hate the morning"

"Long since my thoughts chase me like beasts in the forests,
And make me wish myself laid under mountains."

"One foot of the sun steadied itself on a long ripple in the river."

"May God damn for ever all who cry 'Peace!'"

She could wear the shit out of a plain black shirt

"He stared upwards, and saw a pair of magnificent dark-blue eyes looking at him with inexpressible yearning."

"What will the poor nations say, when they write our history?"

"How do we go on being so comfortable, and so troubled? Are we poor losers?"

"They confiscated everything, even the stuff we didn't steal!"

"aging, but without knowledge of their age"

"Shallow work is the work that I do."

"You know what I was, you see what I am: change me, change me!"

"I don't have to remind you to stick with your kind."

"I'm walking down that empty road... but it ain't empty now, because I'm on it."

"I acted a heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes."