“Conviction affects all substances in the vicinity.”
“Change affects only the form of a thing, not its substance.”
“He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be.”
“In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.”
“Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.”
“If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.”