"The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, int…"

"He glared at her. Women can get a man to do anything, he realized. Mother, wife, even employee; they twist us like ho…"

"“We all make mistakes,” the cab said piously. “But some of us,” Barney said, “make fatal ones.” First about our loved…"

"Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything…"

"But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the …"

"“Isn’t there any way—” He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect wor…"

"When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion."

"It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil an…"

"It’s not religious fervor; it’s just a mean, very cruel streak."

"That’s who I ought to call: Verne Engel. You know what I’d say to him? “You stupid bastard, does what you’re fighting…"