“Ve, isin kotu tarafi da, bohem takildiginda ya da bunun gibi bir cilginlik yaptiginda, sen de herkes kadar duzene ayak uydurmus oluyorsun, sadece bicim farki var.”

“Ama onlar beni de Booper'ı da -kız kardeşim- böyle sevmiyorlar. Yani olduğumuz gibi sevemiyorlar. Bizi birazcık değiştirmezlerse sevemiyorlar. Bizi sevme nedenlerini neredeyse bizi sevdikleri kadar,hatta çoğu zaman bizden daha fazla seviyorlar. Herkes diğerini sevdiği ölçüde, onu sevme nedenini seviyor, hatta çoğu zaman bu nedeni daha da çok seviyor. O zaman pek iyi olmuyor.”

“Dunyada hos seyler de var -hakikaten hos seyler yani. Hepsini birden iskalayacak kadar da salagiz biz. Olup biten her seyi hemen o sefil kucuk egolarimiza gonderiyoruz mutemadiyen.”

“Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quite horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman. Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God I don't.”

“There is no comparison between us. What Kao keeps in view is the spiritual mechanism. In making sure of the essential, he forgets the homely details; intent on the inward qualities, he loses sight of the external. He sees what he wants to see, and not what he does not want to see. He looks at the things he ought to look at, and neglects those that need not be looked at. So clever a judge of horses is Kao, that he has it in him to judge something better than horses.”

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

“It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”