"Honey, this town has got just one principal industry where girls is concerned. They can call it what they like but it…"

"This way madness lies."

"But you got to hang on, she thought. You got to hang on because if you lose hold you'll just break up and drift off a…"

"What's going on out there," Rheinhardt said, "is there are like a few billion people walking around and every one of …"

"It brought him to a latticed gate over which a small, iron Christ stared down in wide-eyed rusty death from the gibbe…"

"If somebody ever tells you, Geraldine, that they need you, you tell them to buy a dog."

"You and I, my boy, compose a tiny island of sanity in what is otherwise a fucking nuthouse."

"A different voice sounded from the field now, an old man's voice. "Where are they now," the voice asked sadly, "those…"

"When you stir up the bottom you naturally bring up some big fish."

"You goin' to get killed one time, you know that?" "You don't never get out of this world alive."