“Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.”

“I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.”

“Listen. There is a sound like the knocking of railway trucks in a siding. That is the happy concatenation of one event following another in our lives. Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up — sober, merciful word which we pretend to revile, which we press tight to our hearts, without which we should be undone. How we worship that sound like the knocking together of trucks in a siding!”

“Like a hydra for every Question answered two more should be asked”

“When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.”

“She had no mind, but I didn’t mind, because she had a body like an upside down question mark.”