“As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
“Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?”
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”
“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.”
“Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?”
“I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.”