The world news might not be therapeutic.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."