“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

“I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

“Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.”

“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”

“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”

“The fish is my friend too," he said aloud. "I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”