In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.