

“Cependant Quenu se rappelait une phrase de Charvet, cette fois, qui déclarait que "ces bourgeois empâtés, ces boutiquiers engraissés, prêtant leur soutien à un gouvernement d' indigestion générale, devaient êtres jetés les premiers au cloaque." C' était grâce à eux, grâce à leur égoïsme du ventre, que le despotisme s' imposait et rongeait une nation.”
― The Belly of Paris
― The Belly of Paris

“Cyrano: Very well, then I exaggerate!
Le Bret: Oh, you do!
Cyrano: Yes; on principle. There are things in this world a man does well to carry to extremes.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
Le Bret: Oh, you do!
Cyrano: Yes; on principle. There are things in this world a man does well to carry to extremes.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac

“The pre-Socratics frequently wrote their treatises in verse; the ancient Peruvian language had a single word-hamavec-for poet and inventor.”
― The Act of Creation
― The Act of Creation

“The seclusion of this ranch house threatened to take her breath away, but she managed to smile. So this is what it’s like to be a country girl.”
― Colorado Takedown
― Colorado Takedown

“The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.”
― Patriot Games
― Patriot Games
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