Patrick Brown > Patrick's Quotes

“I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

“For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

“Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit -- not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”
― William S. Burroughs