"All but a small percentage of Americans live out of their lives without ever coming closer to murder than the daily t…"

"Sam was too good a scientist to let that hope creep into his hypothesizing."

"The subject was complex enough to nurture family splits as rancorous and as final as the theological hairsplitting wh…"

"Martel still did not want to believe in it, but brute experience of it forced him to, whatever his preferences."

"The tribesmen understand this very well, although they would not describe it in the same terms I have. It is simply a…"

"“We hear you, Father,” he said surprisingly. “Yet we sense that though what you say is the truth, it is not the whole…"

"High intelligence did not imply superior ability to come to terms with one’s social environment; indeed, there seemed…"

"Of course a sense of guilt has a threshold; at a certain level of intensity it begins to confirm the habit-pattern ra…"

"It isn’t every composer who can premier his own last opera posthumously."

"You may as well go, Maurice. You can’t undo what you’ve done in any case, nor can I expect to talk to you out of what…"