Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.