God, if he believed in one -- his conscience, if he had one -- were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.
Kind of scary, huh? 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Ch.10 p.73
"I should not feel safe with you, especially as I share your cabin I might wake one day to find myself half devoured."
"Friend Conseil, I like you much, but not enough to eat you unless I had to."
Well I'm quoting it from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea but it might as well be from the Twilight Zone. Ch.20 p.125
At this moment, nothing is clear to me. I catch only a glimpse of light in all the darkness and I must confine myself to writing as events dictate.
This seems to be a heading for anyone's journal. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Part 2 Ch.1 p.203
Pefume is the soul of a flower.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Part 2 Ch.10 p.309
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Part 2 Ch.15 p.355
Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the Finger of God.
That's deep. The Bridge of San Luis Rey p.20
Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey p.34
Such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a days routine to them.
Who knew my brilliance could be decribed so perfectly. :) The Bridge of San Luis Rey p.35
We come from a world where we have known incredible standards of excellence, and we dimly remember beauties which we have not seized again.
So that's why no one likes my dog playing poker picture on my wall. The Bridge of San Luis Rey p.165
The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.
Isn’t there something like this from Moby Dick up above? The Bridge of San Luis Rey p.215
But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Wow. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. p.234-235
You’ve got to love life to have life, and you’ve got to have life to love life.
This is from a play that one friend of mine describes as emotionally raping you. Our Town
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Yet once again I notice that I’m currently spending my time in front of the computer. The Matchmaker
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns
From Don Vito Corleone The Godfather Bk.1, Ch.1, p.52
...there [is] no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it [is] to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
The Godfather Bk.3, Ch.14, p.219