"I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher." Chapter 9, page 308.

"Even now one laughs! Even now your circle is smaller!" Chapter 11, page 400.

"At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor- the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny." Chapter 6, page 233.

"Dark, don't catch me here." Chapter 6, page 209.

"I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after than is more unsettling." Chapter 5, page 176.

"It was a moment he remembered for years after, as though a special small slice had been cut from the cake of time. If nothing fires between two...