The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
Ralph EllisonPerhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
Ralph EllisonWithout the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
Ralph Ellison