“...it takes only a modest amount of disruption to create an inordinate amount of mayhem. It's not necessary to wreak all the destruction yourself. Just begin with a fair amount and man's stupidity and selfishness will do the rest.”
“These pigeons seemed to have an inordinate amount of room on their legs.”
“You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.”
“The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.”
“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.”
“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.”