The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.