“Or perhaps he was just one of those people who only opened his mouth to change feet.”
“His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.”
“when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and thetongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decidesto open that mouth and speak.”
“We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”
“He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.”
“I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be "fascinating," but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that.”