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there was no evil in being poor; poverty merely opened one up to evil.
‘May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense,’
comment. “I found you here, Augustus Brine, listening to the noise of the universe, holding in your heart a spark of hope, like all fishermen, but resolved to be disappointed.
In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.
What’s morality?” “It’s the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.”
Butterflies do not wax nostalgic about the time they spent as caterpillars.
Cookies snitched from the jar are always sweeter than those served on a plate, and nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

