“He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.”

“he noticed an inscription written on the floor at the foot of a pile of bones: What you are, they once were. What they are, you will be.”

“When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.”

“I think this goat must have been fed on old boots,' Stubble complained as he chewed the last scraps of flesh from the bones littering his stew.”

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”

“I can't stand a man who fawns, you know what I mean? I can't stand a man sucking up to me, but he was the kind who took you right on the floor and he didn't even look at you afterwards when he zipped up his pants.”