“while the shadows like long fingers
over the haystacks that sweep past
keep shocking him
because he is riding backwards.”

Source: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 11 (p. 87)

Ian Smith, as quoted in Heidi Holland, Dinner with Mugabe, Penguin Books; Reprint edition (5 Feb 2009), ISBN 0143026186.

My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)

Joe Higgins on badgering Bertie Ahern in the Dáil. Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/in-berties-last-chance-saloon-cowen-moves-at-his-own-pace-1301140.html

Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443, 537 (1953) (concurring)
Judicial opinions

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 16
Context: All these years, he thought, dreaming about a companion. Now I meet one and the first thing I do is distrust her, treat her crudely and impatiently.
And yet there was really nothing else he could do. He had accepted too long the proposition that he was the only normal person left. It didn’t matter that she looked normal. He’d seen too many of them lying in their coma that looked as healthy as she. They weren’t, though, and he knew it. The simple fact that she had been walking in the sunlight wasn’t enough to tip the scales on the side of trusting acceptance. He had doubted too long. His concept of the society had become ironbound. It was almost impossible for him to believe that there were others like him. And, after the first shock had diminished, all the dogma of his long years alone had asserted itself.

Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), p. 367
1930s