“CUSTOMER: Oh, look, these books are all signed. (Pause) I wonder who signed them ?”

“I think they should change STOP signs to PAUSE signs.”

“As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.”

“Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.”

“Parent power is not a sign of democracy, it is a sign of barbarism. We are to regard education as a service industry, like a laundry, parents are the customers, teachers the washers, children the dirty linen. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. And what in the name of boiling hell do parents know about education? How many educated people are there in the world? I could name seventeen or eighteen.”

“I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . . ”