“Not many people know how to make letters like this," he says. "Do you ever teach anyone?""Only once," I say.”

“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”

“Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

“You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.”

“Some people say, "I only want to do God's work." How do you know what God's work is??”

“So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.”