You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.

Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.