She didn't know [him], so she thought it was the look she had seen in so many eyes, the desire to dominate, to rule her, the desire to cut through her determination and break her independence, the desire to make her submit

Do you like her? I think that I understood that she didn't want to be liked. As if she were a visitor who expected to go back home any day.

So he wasn't like the adults who always believed lies as long as they made her seem to be the child they wanted her to be

Tangents. The best parts of my intellectual life are tangential, in areas outside my expertise. I supposed because within my area of expertise the regulations …

If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs [surface-to- air missiles]. They know we own their country. We own their airspace:We dic…

A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please…