Quotations

"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic." 

Muriel Spark, a Jewish convert to Catholicism

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time."

Thomas De Quincey, "A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)

"He died in exile: as with all men, it was his lot to live in bad times." 

Jorge Luis Borges