He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.