“he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.”

“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”

“Miss you,” he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.”

“Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).”

“There's no such thing as coincidences, only incidences with a twist.”

“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.”