The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.