He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

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

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.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

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.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.