“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

“There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. ”

“The boy smiled -- mostly at Amy."Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ianright now.”

“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment”

“[Lee Oswald] saw himself as part of something vast and sweeping. He was the product of a sweeping history, he and his mother, locked into a process, a system of money and property that diminished their human worth every day, as if by scientific law. The books made him part of something. Something led up to his presence in this room, in this particular skin, and something would follow. Men in small rooms. Men reading and waiting, struggling with secret and feverish ideas.”