“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

“I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.”

“The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom.”

“And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”

“That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.”

“I've entered the looney bin," I told another unwitting customer, this one female."It's always like that around here," the customer replied. "That's why I come, it's like walking into a sitcom that could only air on HBO.”