You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.