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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." -Part 1, Chapter 1

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns." -Part 1, Chapter 1

"The days of my youth, as I look back on them, were to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car." -Part 1, Chapter 5

"Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill." -Part 1, Chapter 20

""It occurred to me that I had a fine brain in beautiful working order and that I might as well use it." -Part 1, Chapter 21

"After all, there is no harm in smiling." -Part 1, Chapter 29

"There is nothing louder than an American hotel; and, mind you, this was supposed to be a quiet, cozy, old-fashioned, homey place - 'gracious living' and all that stuff." -Part 1, Chapter 29

"Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud - symbols of my passion." -Part 2, Chapter 2

"'We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things.'" -Part 2, Chapter 4

"'Words without experience are meaningless.'" -Part 2, Chapter 4

"A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely." -Part 2, Chapter 22

"My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ." -Part 2, Chapter 25

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." -Part 2, Chapter 29

"I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past." -Part 2, Chapter 30