"No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically."

"Then there's the law that any person found carrying a Swanhook, the same being neither a Swanherd in good s…"

"With clarity and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are th…"

"The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations.…"

"For all its critical analysis philosophy has not yet managed to root out its psychopaths. What do we have p…"

"I smiled as charmingly as I knew how. Her hard, intelligent face showed no sign of being charmed."

"I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic."