“I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.”

“You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.”

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”

“People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.”

“Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.”

“For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.”

“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”