“I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.”

“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”

“Some like them hot,some like them cold.Some like them when they're not to darn oldSome like them fat,some like them lean.Some like them only at sweet sixteen.Some like them dark,some like them light.Some like them in the park,late at night.Some like them fickle,some like them true,But the time I like them is when they're like you”

“That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.”

“Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.”

“Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.”