“The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”

“When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm.”

“The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin."
A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once.”

“I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end… Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty… This time of rest has been a great mercy.”

“Whatever. If Carnegie wakes up not knowing, he might make some private inquiries, but he ain’t going to be in too much of a hurry to let the police department in on it. And if he wakes up knowing—” He spread his hands. “—he’ll make less noise than a Catholic orgasm.”

“As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.”

“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”

“[Anton Denikin, in his diary] “has a discussion there about Great and Little Russia, Ukraine. He says that no one should be allowed to interfere in relations between us; this has always been only Russia’s business.””

“I don't believe the Devil,I don't believe his book,but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up.”

“In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.”