"Cargo. They were cargo. I think it started the day I first saw the Totenlager in Treblinka. I remember Wirth standing there, next to the pits full of blue-black corpses. It had nothing to do with humanity-it couldn't have; it was a mass-a mass of rotting flesh. Wirth said, 'What shall we do with this garbage?' I think unconsciously that started me thinking of them as cargo."

"Edna wondered if they had all gone mad, to be talking and clamoring at that rate. She herself could think o…"

"Making meaningful distinctions is not hypocrisy, it's called "thinking."

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it."

"Adorno retains the concept of the system and even makes it, as target and object of critique, the very cent…"

"After the fox, a creature that resembled a cross between a groundhog and a midget deer emerged to patrol in…"

"I had every detail clear in my mind before I sat down to the typewriter."