And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

Dear Jesus, do something.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.