“But that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all.”

“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment. You can do what you like with him, you can work him to death or you can sell him. This cannot be called cruelty or greed because we are seeking only to recover our investment and that is a sacred duty.”

“There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.”

“Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising.”

“The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...”

“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...”

“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.”