“No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.”

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”

“Dios, she'd never come so hard in her life. How many people died this way? How would he ever explain to the ambulance crews that he'd chained his girlfriend out on the deck and killed her with too many orgasms?”

“Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.”

“People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”

“Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.”