“Being right was largely a matter of explanations.”

“I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.”

“With small nose, gross thighs, and those back-bent smoke-dyed fingers, he obliged me with this explanation, and he thought to have more effect on me than he really ever could have. When I didn't argue he was satisfied that he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.”

“Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.”

“If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”

“...between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.”

“How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.”