“Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven.”

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”

“I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. ”

“Two TreesA portion of your soul has beenentwined with mineA gentle kind of togetherness, whileseparately we stand.As two trees deeply rooted inseparate plots of ground,While their topmost branchescome together,Forming a miracle of laceagainst the heavens.”

“I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.”

“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”