"Have you got impulses? Of course you got impulses. How many times you think - suppose I do that? And you don't do it, because you know damn well if you do it you'll get arrested" (Impulses, pg. 3.)

"But about feelings, people really know nothing. We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words. Nobody knows what sufferance or sacrifice mean - except perhaps the victims of the mysterious purpose of these illusions" (Outpost of Progress, pg. 91.)

"None of them know about the things they saw every day. None of them knew what it meant to be in a place where there were delicacies to eat and new clothes to wear and look at, what it meant to be warm and out of the wind for a change, what it could mean merely to...