“Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.”

“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”

“You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth, not if you want to go on living.”

“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”

“Doral asked if Coburn’s neighbors had been interviewed.“By me personally,” Fred replied. “Everybody in the apartment complex knew him by sight. Women thought he was attractive in that certain kind of way.”“What certain kind of way?”“Wished they could fuck him, but considered him bad news.”“That’s a ‘way’?”“Of course that’s a ‘way.’ ”

“There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.”