“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”

“I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.”

“We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.”

“his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”

“A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.”

“The past is never done with us in any substantial way. The most cursory examination reveals its bloody fingerprints on every surface of our lives.”