“He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.”

“The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.”

“He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity”

“He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

“Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.”

“He had, like everyone else, his suffix ist, without which nobody could have lived in those days, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orléanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.”