“Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.”
“We're all here to take care of ourselves, and ourselves only. This is how I look at it: if a gunman rampaged through the flats, I'd barricade Mum and me in our place and forget about anyone else on our floor. If the gunman broke into our flat then I'm not entirely sure I'd take a bullet for Mum, or vice versa. When it comes down to it, we're all on our own. Once you realise that, life becomes simpler.”
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
“Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as a vice. The others were just job skills.”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
“When in vice, say it twice.”