"From the warmth of your welcome I might have thought you still single. I have no intention of letting you disturb my meal, and I trust you will allow me to finish it. I can't expect others to share my virtues, it's good enough for me if they share my vices."
""Very well, I will spend that night of vigil with you.""
"Poverty makes slaves of men. In order to eat they will do work they hate. Any work that isn't joyful is wrong, I thought...I told them, 'Don't work, you hate it.'"
"The accreted layers of acquired learning flaked away like greasepaint, offering glimpses of bare flesh, the real person hidden underneath."
"The law of imitation—I call it the law of fear. They fear finding themselves alone, so they don't find themselves at all. I detest this moral agoraphobia, it is the worst form of cowardice."