“We've still got a long haul ahead of is and I don't want to damn her rift away with my first, second, and third impressions, as my character analyses are usually for shit.”
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a bloody good long shit.”
“My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.”
“My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.”
“We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.”
“I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands.Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind”