In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.