"'I think we should give it our best shot. Let's make like dressmakers and get the tuck in there.'"
Chap. 2, p. 20

"'We'd talked them into coming, we'd promised them a good time, and it was our idea to take the plunge into Hell. If we had a miserable failure I'd feel awful.'"
Chap. 2, p. 23

"It was about a half hour from the swimming hole to home. I don't know if I was happy that day - those tense and edgy feelings were getting stronger and stronger - but I do know I've never been happy since."
Chap. 5, p. 53

"I mean I knew in my logical mind that such things were logical outcomes of invasions and fights and wars, but my logical mind was in a little box. My imagination was in another box entirely and I wasn't letting one transmit to the other."
Chap. 7, p. 77

"It...