the first time in North America's long history, a presidential election was ninety nine and ninety nine one-hundredths percent pure! - E.E. "Doc" Smith

there is only one power which is at one and the same time illimitable and yet finite; insatiable yet satisfying; one which, while eternal, yet invariably returns to its possessor the true satisfaction of real accomplishment in exact ratio to the effort expended upon it. That power is the power of the mind.

he was plunging deeper and deeper into the paroxysmally ecstatic profundity of a thionite debauch from which there was to be no awakening.

Her hair was a brilliant green. So was her spectacularly filled halter.