“I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.”

“You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.”

“We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?”

“After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.”

“A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.”

“It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”

“The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.”