Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

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.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the creak of ropes; then he heard the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh. Her call for him to hurry was a sea-moan, and when he lay beside her, she heaved, tidal, moon-driven.