“In scenes like these, any man could be Iago.”

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

“Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.”

“I shrugged. 'Any fool can peel the Apple,' I said. 'It takes a real man to eat the core.”

“One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody”