“Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?”
“Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.”
“They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.”
“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
“I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.”
“Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?”