What's your favorite sentence or paragraph from any novel?

Question:

What's your favorite sentence or paragraph from any novel?

What's your favorite sentence or paragraph that has some meaning from any novel ever written? No movies please.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking wiht his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce! Am I to rush into the street, collar the first man of wealthy appearence that I meet, shake him, and say, 'Go to law upon the spot, you dog, and retain me, or I'll be the death of you'? Yet that would be energy."

~Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

This is one of my favorite paragraphes from a novel, beacause it displays the real character of the speaker. The speaker is also probably my favorite fictional character, so that makes it special, too.:-)