Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil …

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.