Brimstone

He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.

New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.

An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this: “ Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne’er be found again.

Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.

Those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach, critique.

I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.

Don’t live in the past—you will know what you’ve lost but not what you’ve found?

As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

I’ve never seen a more contented smile on some people than at their own wake.