37 Quotes by Victor Robert Lee

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?

Cono knew that all three of his tormentors would know the anthem by heart from their childhood years. They had sung it daily to belong to the elite of their country, wearing around their necks the red ties of the Communist Party Youth Brigade, which had formed their beings and all that they would be and would ever believe, even as communism became a ghost and the party a web of corruption.

In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.

Your death rides a fast camel.

Todd was neuter, it seemed, except for the near-orgasmic pleasure he took from his formulas. Cono guessed that only a person who didn't really care for people could find personalities in equations, and friends in matrices. Todd spoke of data sets as if they were current or future lovers. Cono admired him for his ability to find joy beyond the secretory impulses that controlled most humans.

What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general.

Even now, I feel your arms around meMy breath is your breath and yours mineEven now, I hear you laughing like bells ...You sing to me and I sing to youDear child of my womb, my love,Time has left us, left us forever together.

I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself--wouldn't you?