He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, …”

“He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved…”

“Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he ha…”

“He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he …”