"He turned and a hysterical terror seized him, as though he were falling from a great height in a dream. A white blur was standing by the door, silent, ghostlike.” (85)
”You make us live in such crowded conditions…that one out of every ten of us is insane…you dump all stale foods into the Black Belt and sell them for more than you can get anywhere else…You tax us, but you wont build hospitals…the schools are so crowded that they breed perverts…you hire us last and fire us first…” (318).
"Mr. Max, I didn't mean to do what I did. I was trying to do something else. But it seems like I never could. I was always wanting something and I was feeling that nobody would let me have it." (pg. 388)