To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes. - Malcolm Bradbury

[A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.

'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.