“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”

“...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.”

“...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”

“It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.”

“So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.”