A Judgement in Stone

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Like all true eccentrics, he thought other people very odd.

Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference to the printed word is not made or in which the implications of something read do not occur.

...selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The admonitions of those who seldom remonstrate are more effective than the commands of naggers.

I can tell you, she really knows her job." "So do boa constrictors," said Audrey.

guessed at the truth, that Joan Smith was daily growing more and more demented and her hold on reality becoming increasingly tenuous. She was like a weak swimmer whose grasp of a slippery rock has never been firm. Now her fingers were sliding helplessly down its surface, and currents of madness were drawing her into the whirlpool.

selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.