“It’s bad enough… when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”

“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

“Incompetence at this scale, when they're doing things at this scale, is really dangerous, you could end up on a kill list without knowing what the criteria is to get on there or what the criteria is to get off.”

“Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”

“If everything you do is in order to do something else, when do you ever get to the end of it all?”

“One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.”

“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”

“Well, I tell you again to get rid of your Constitution. But I suppose you won't do it. You have a good president and you have a bad Constitution, and the bad Constitution gets the better of the good President all the time. The end of it will be is that you might as well have an English Prime Minister.”

“If I open my eyes just far enough
I can see what you're doing.
Go on, fight to the end, it's though enough
When you're on the road of ruin!”