Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.