“...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”

“Another chunk of my childhood dreams had just run down the reality drain in the form of a horny unicorn, no less.”

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

“I had a naked incubus in my bedroom. With a frying pan of half-cooked bacon, and a hard-on. And a unicorn bite on his ass. Christ, this was turning out to be a weird morning.”

“Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”