On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with atangible presence. It affected their minds as the many atmospheres ofdeep water affect the body of the diver.
Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.
Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken.
I wandered all these years among a world of women, seeking you.
I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness.