In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.

Envy loves to tease a man constantly playing yo-yo, which is a cherished dream man.

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.