All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!