“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

“There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men--many men--unfortunately aren't anything.”

“I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying.”

“The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believein a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that.”

“Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.”

“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right if their special-interest favoritism is the only favoritism that is fixed. The result...is that nobody is giving up their favoritism. In these circumstances everybody loses...”