"'Your were so heavy to carry,; his father said, 'I thought you have to be dead.  Only also you were so hot against the hand."(106)

"...his stomach awash in an acid of embarrassment, confusion, and arousal."(106)

"After relieving Josef of the burden of his innocence the previous night,"(47)

"Walking around talking and making up a lot of nonsense about someon who could liberate no one and nothing but smudgy black marks on a piece of cheap paper"(135)

"'All right,' Joe said. 'Ja ja, I believe you.' It made him impatient to be consoled, as if words of comfort lent greater credence to his fears. 'We will kill.'"(136)

"--enough to let a quarter of a floor in the Empire State Building, enough to exert an empressive mass-cultural influence over the vast American marketplace of children and know-nothings."(220)

"...to shut up; work was not work for him. Parties were work.  Women were work.  At Palooka Studios, whenever there occurred teh chance to conjunction of girls and a bottle,..."(229)

"'It's better than Superman.' Sammy got down of his stool and went over to help them admire his work."(140)

"'I already have seven guys line up, boss,' said Sammy. 'Including Frank Pantaleone, who just sold a strip to King Features.'"(154)

"Jack's not going to do that.  George Deasey has been in the business for thiry years.  He's smart.  Unlike you or I, he went to college."(155)

"'We're not changing the cover, boss,' Sammy said, and then, bringing to bear all his poewrs of dissimulated pluck and flase bravado, he picked up one of the portfolios and began filling it with pieces of illustration board"(160)

"...for some reason painful to Anapol, of how big the latest Escapist donnybrook was going to go over with the remarkably bloodthirsty children of America."(172)

"'Where am I. It was not a question the second time he said it. 'I'm on my way to Canada'"(186)

"... dollar suit.  He walked across the street to the square.  Thomas was coming to America! He had a date for dinner!"(264)

"...possible salvation of his sanity.  Let people be reasonable whose families were not held prisoner"(285)

", but he had never before felt himself so addressed, with such a direct appeal, made not merely to his ears but to his eyes.  No one who looked like Tracy Bacon had ever, to his mermory, spoken to him at all."(305)

"Please, Josef, do not continue to trouble yourself or waste your time attempting to win for us what you have, with the help ofyou friends, been able to attain for your brother.  It is enough; more than enough."(325)

"'For some reason,' Bacon conttinues, 'she was under the misapprehension that I inted to propose marriage to her this evening.'"(350)

"--at the irrelevant, senatorial level of consciousness wher ethe questions that desire has areldy answered are proposed and debated and teable till later--that he was in love, or falling in love with Tracy Bacon.  It was not that he denied what he was feeling, or that the implications of the feeling had frightened him;..."(372)

"'They were children,' he said. 'We were wolves.'"(401)

"Sammy jerked his hand away.  Regardless of what he felt for Bacon, it was not worth the danger, the shame, the risk of arrest and opprobrium.  Sammy felt, that morning, with his ribs bruised and wan flavor of chlorine at the back of his mouth, that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving."(420)

"Sammy turned to look at her, his eyes bright, wild with an idea that Rosa grasped at once, in all its depths and particulars, in all the fear and hopelessness on which it fed."(421)

".And yet just as he had not reported Carl Ebling after the frist bomb threat to Empire Comics, some impulse now prevented from opening the channel to Cuba and making the report taht duty obliged him to make"(445)

"him--emptied his clip--in this place where the only hope for survival, as he had so long argued, was friendly cooperation among the nations."(464)

"'Frankly, he's never happy anywhere," Pantaleone said, and everyone agreed.  They all knew sammy's story, more or less.  He ahd returned to the comic book business in 1947, covered in failure at everything else he had tried.  His first defeat had been in the advertising game...'"(480)

"This was a service he provided at no charge and, so far as he knew, unbeknownst to Mr. Spielgelman."(501)

"He left the house at eight forty-five, like every day, and started walking toward William Floyd Junior High, where he was in teh seventh grade."(515)

"'Only love,' the old magician had said, 'could pick a nested pair of stell Bramah locks.'"(532)

"... to find readers who would appreciate their irony, their humor, their bizaree and pious brand of liberal morality"(566)

"The night he offered her the chance to draw 'a comic book for dollies,' Rosa felt, sammy hd huanded her a golden key..."(547)

"'Well, I wish I could say that I did it fo ryou, Joe, because I'm such a good friend.  But the truth is that, at taht moment, I was as scared as Rosa.  I married her because I didn't want to, well, to be a fairy.  Which, actually, I guesss I am.  Maybe you never knew.'"(580)

"'You killed Germans?'
'one,' JOe sad. 'It was an accident.'
'Did you-did it make you feel-'
'It made me feel like the worst man in teh world.'"(590)

"He could not park here; he would not be able to get the money today.  Maybe it was not such a good idea after all.  He put the car in gear"(605)

"...what point the soul of the Golem had reentered its body, or if possibly there could be more than one lost soul embodied in all that dust, weighing it down so heavily"(612)

"..., having paged through dsome of the Batman comic books in question last night, that the relationship between Batman and his ward is actually a thinly veiled allegory of pedophilic inversion?"(615)

"'Because they can't go fuck themselves.' Deasy tossedt he bill onto the bar. 'The way you can. Now why don't you make yourself useful and bring me a rye and water, and another of what he's having?'"(621)

"Then he stopped and just stood there looking at Tommy, loving him, and feeling the usual spasm of shame that it should be while eh was watching the boy sleep that he felt most like a father, or rather, the happiest to be one."(631)

"Sammy had resolved never to let him feel abandoned, never to walk out on him, and until now, until tonight, he had managed to keep the promise, though there were times..."

"...longer listening to anything they were telling him.  He was just lying there, in the Bug's Nest, holding his father's hand, while his mother brushed the bangs from his forehead"(629)