Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

It will all end very badly, Gus

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.