To restore silence is the role of objects.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.