[From <i>Pale Horse, Pale Rider</i>] The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . . - Katherine Anne Porter

People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers...

Theft,” based on self-analysis in Salem, published in The Gyroscope.

His agitation grew as he felt the oppression of the increasing millions of subhuman beings, the mindless grave-stuff not even fit to be good servants, yet whose mere mass and weight of negative evil threatened to rule the world.