“Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.”
“Thus my task was destruction.”
“To make matters worse, I was out of a job and had very little money and was self-exiled to Flatbush—like others of my countrymen, another lean and lonesome Southerner wandering amid the Kingdom of the Jews.”
“That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.”
“My self-destructive behaviour and self-hatred had hit an all-time high.”
“I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”