A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.