There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.
Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.
The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.