It’s always been an exceedingly curious thing to me, just how incurious most people are about all save their own little island of time and place in t… - Michael Shea

And you could see at a glance that Defalk was a simple man who wanted no more than to be brilliantly rich, admired, and unencumbered with work. His face said it so plainly: “I’m an excellent fellow. Isn’t such a life no more than my proper portion?”

The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience of horrors than in the unpreventable fruition of horrors foreknown.

We all thought you such a daring romantic then, and so outspoken about all us more conventional souls! Remember what you used to say about the world of business? All toadying and chicanery, lean purses fawning on fat ones for favors? Were those not the days? How far we wander from our youthful views!