Ten Angry SMS

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God’s name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.