Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.