A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
