It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.