What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.