It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.