“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”
“I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.”
“Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions.”
“Some people speak a lot, but have very little to say. Some people speak very little, but have very much to say.”
“Illusions can be very convincing. No one has any reason to suspect that I am anything less than what I appear.”
“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”