“I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.”

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”

“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”

“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.' He'd said all this before, to others; he wondered if he'd said it to her. 'It's like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn't ever a time you absolutely had to do it - there was always Saturday, then Sunday - but then there wasn't ever a time when it wasn't there to do, too.' 'How awful.' ("Novelty")”

“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”

“I was wondering why I wasn't getting the right answers. It was then I realized that I wasn't asking the right people.”