...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.