"... the odds were that it was I who was wrong, and not everyone else - though I did not see how that could be." p. 7

"It was the same sensation I used to have sometimes as a child when I got to fancying that horrors were lurking in the shadowy corners of the bedroom; when I daren't put a foot out for fear that something should reach from under the bed and grab my ankle; daren't even reach for the switch lest the movement should cause something to leap at me." p. 9

"...I began to feel that there was a party for all the world going on, with me as the only person not invited." p.13

"But then there was so much routine, things were so interlinked. Each one of us so steadily did his little part in the right place that it was easy to mistake habit...