“Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.”

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our ...”

“It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.”

“I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.”

“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And,...”

“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”

“Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds meI spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.”

“Holy Mother we do believe,That without sin Thou didst conceive;May we now in Thee believing,Also sin without conceiving.”