“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.”
“It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.”
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”
“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell,”
“To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation”
“It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?""Everything.”