It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and its really all about them. – Robbie Coltrane
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the bodys final fall, nor the barrels of deaths rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. – Roger Waters