The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none … - Theodore Dreiser

She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.

One of his self–imposed tasks was to go about the house after Lester, or the servants, turning out the gas–jets or electric–light bulbs which might accidentally have been left burning. That was a sinful extravagance.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.