Character: Henry Detamble

Theft is a direct road to prison, and the explanations are awfully tedious and time-consuming, you have to lie, and as a result it often happens that you sit in the same prison, so well them to hell!

Taking off my pants and briefs. It's impossible to do nicely. I wonder how cope with this problem the strippers. Or they just jump on the stage, first on one foot then on the other?

In Chicago this architecture is that it feels the need of something to endure from time to time and erect terrible buildings that people could appreciate the charm of antiquity.

When you live with a woman, you learn every day something new. So far I've learned that long hair clogging up the drain in the shower faster than the time to blink; it is not recommended to cut something from the newspaper before your wife won't read it, even if it is a newspaper a week old; that I was the only person in our family who can eat the same thing three nights in a row without unhappy faces, and that headphones were invented to save the spouses from musical tastes to each other.

The dead need to be remembered even if it eats us, even if we only can repeat: "I'm Sorry" until it lose any meaning.

- If my child is left in a car on the day of obtaining a driver's license, I would sit on the porch with a stopwatch.

It's easy to be omniscient when it's already happened before.

Neither time, nor distance, nor fate, nor death can break my last wish to the last breath.