Take St. Augustine, for instance. "Asshole” was the only word that fit — Philip José Farmer

"He was stiff and sometimes a little strange, which was what you’d expect from an engineer, but he had a moral backbone as inflexible as a fossilized dinosaur’s."

"But we may not be able to climb high enough. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise."

"Styles was an old Mississippi pilot, a handsome youth, no liar, though given to inflating facts."

"A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion."

"Dreams haunted The Riverworld."

"Where this area had been beautiful with its many trees and bright grass and the colored blooms of the vines that covered the trees, it was now like a battlefield. It had been necessary to create ugliness to build a beautiful boat."