I was talking like this to the Princeton professor and he said well if these are the facts there is no hope and I said well what is hope hope is just contact with the facts. ~ Ch. 3

If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like …

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. ~ Ch. 3

A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and…

Facts are stubborn things.

In the real world, mice do exist and they generally go about their business whether we see them or not.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.