“Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.”

“The whites do not believe in such things," Charley said."Believe?" Tupshin was bewildered. "What is this talk of belief? Do they not believe in the sea, then? Or the mountains? There is a thing which is, it is not for believing or not believing.”

“...The Things we do not want to speak abot are the very things we need to speak about most”

“For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.”

“Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.”

“I never think at all when I writenobody can do two things at the same timeand do them both well”

“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”