The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

A game can by God repent or we'll punish it. That's how they did it in Salem in the seventeenth century, and that's how we'll do it now.

I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one.

Littering is dumb.

Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the mid-fork of the Feather River