From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ~Socrates
"We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall." Tracks
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." A Tale of Two Cities
"Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression." At Swim-Two-Birds
"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up." The Napoleon of Notting Hill
"Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up." The Violent Bear it Away
"So you got what you want. What a nasty ambition! Set me up, pull me down. Then exploit my condition. I should have guessed, woman. That if pressed, woman. You're on nobody's side but your own. And you're behaving like a mere woman, it's so clear, woman. It's your sex!" Chess
"Never take a stranger's advice.
Never let a friend fool you twice.
Nobody's on nobody's side.
Everybody's playing the game.
But nobody's rules are the same.
Nobody's on nobody's side" Chess
