“Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”
“It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”
“The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.”
“Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.”