This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Your heart is your life. What keeps you going and what gives you hope. So wherever it leads you, whatever or whoever it lives for. Keep the beat.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

Hasten slowly.

I'm too awkward to date, I think. I'm kind of all or nothing, you know? Either put a baby inside of me or leave me alone.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Every market is in transition.

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.