'The mind of an idea, a crazy heart on fire, the stripped remnants of another time and place - and all the remaining bricks piled high atop one another - in a festive strip of depth and color, still can amount to nothing at all.'
'Today while visiting the Union League, I thought I saw something scampering about - some relic, some ghost of a far and distant past. And the Civil War flags were flying.'
'A serendipidity such as this rules only once. You either catch it or you don't.'
'By some great, emphatic noise, I knew it was over.'
'Aspersions notwithstanding, and memory long gone, somewhere - he was certain - a storm was brewing.'
'A jeremiad : the man with the latchkey face.'