“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”

“… but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty.”

“An ugly woodshed that's there, right on the ground, is handsomer to me than a ten-story temple that isn't there.”

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

“It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.”

“Warlocks are something like doctors, I guess. No matter how much you like them personally, there is quite a bit of nasty mess involved in their line of work.”

“You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”

“The Fascists got what they deserved,” Floyd said.
“My husband lived long enough to see those monsters come to come to power. He saw through their lies and promises, but he also knew that they spoke to something nasty and squalid in the human spirit. Something in all of us. We want to hate those who are not like us. All we need is an excuse, a whisper in the ear.”

“When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”

“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”