"Sure there’s a hell... It is the drab desert where the sun sheds neither warmth nor light and Habit force-feeds senil…"

"I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway."

"They had no hope of anything more, no comprehension that there might be anything more. In a sense they were an autono…"

"Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too."

"There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been t…"

"That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem …"

"He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for lon…"

"Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got."

"Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every c…"

"What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot."