“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.”

“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”

“Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.”

“Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage." I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted with my present assignment, but a junior enough scrivener to be obligated to accept the same.”

“Cruelty has never made me smile.”

“The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.”

“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice”