“A big-time operator does not sleep with a woman of the town.”
“...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?”
“The town does not existexcept where one black-haired tree slipsup like a drowned woman into the hot sky.”
“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
“I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town.”
“We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.”