“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.”

“There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”

“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend an...”

“I’m awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you’re twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions. . . then whissh! you’re seventy. You’ve been a lawyer for fif...”