If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.