“I am all astonishment.”
“I was convinced (still I am, in fact) that there's no such thing as a novel, astonishing or not, without a penis.”
“I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.”
“I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.”
“I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg.”
“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”