"On the silver screen, Tom Garner, a large, broad-shouldered man, a railroad builder, president of the Chicago and Southwestern Railroad Company, walks into ...

"When he wanted, he looked like the sinful antipode of Jesus Christ and looked like a man who had lived the life of a righteous man for so long that he had g...

"...I live and breathe my city - its fogs, howler monkeys, the ocean, hills, sand dunes, the thoughtfulness of San Francisco, on whose soil I walk in the mor...

"Fog over San Francisco and a gloomy sky in crazy flashes of electric lights. It seems as if you are out of time; a feeling of despair mixed with mockery; pa...

"...What a humiliation that now, when he refuses to laugh, she no longer orders, but begs him to laugh! Well, what can you do? Eh? No fools? How to do the ri...

"Sam Wolinsky was seventeen, and a month had passed since he started shaving. Now he was in love. And he wanted to do something. There was a feeling of unbri...

"... His day began anxiously, his heels made a certain click, he ran his eyes over the superficial truths of the streets and buildings, the trivial truths of...

"Thoughts in the light of an electric light bulb; the clock is counting down the minutes of the January night, and the previously silent radio is bursting wi...

"Don't forget, blood is above all. Remember that man is made of flesh, that the flesh suffers from pain and that the mind enclosed in the flesh suffers along...

"I lived next door to an evening school. In the evenings the lights came on, and I could see men and women in the classrooms. They walked back and forth, but...

"This guy was a champion of all champions. Everything he touched turned into money, and by the age of fourteen he had earned and put more than six hundred do...

"...I am a young man living in the old city. It is morning. I am in a small room. I am standing over a pile of yellow writing paper - this is the only type o...