But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature... And for him, Christopher titles, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

— Ford Madox Ford

He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.

— Kelsey Brickl

...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big launch mad thick lipped sloppy young Filipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)

— Jack Kerouac