“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.”
“And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.”
“Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of "ungrace.”
“...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?”
“I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”