“What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.”

“Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustion. The moral code by which they lived was that ...”

“Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.”

“All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.”

“Theres no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy?”

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”