For a first game, it was a real big test for him, and he did good.

Cameron did real good. He made the adjustment just like the rest of the linebackers before him. He took the challenge up and did everything he was supposed to.

When our line puts that kind of pressure on a quarterback, it makes it kind of easy because he's always getting rid of the ball hot. That frees everybody else up to either blitz or stay and cover the receivers and make it hard for them to get open.

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.

But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative... Nothing could be without its opposite bound up with it. Could space exist in a building without objects that stopped it? Could energy exist without matter, or matter without energy? Matter and energy, the inert and the active, once considered opposites, were now known to be one.