“It's one thing to be threatened. It's quite another thing to be threatened in grammatically incorrect fashion. I felt like some basic right as a literate American had been violated.”
“It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.”
“I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.”
“It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.”
“Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”
“It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.”