“And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love.”

“Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write.”

“Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not”

“Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes usable to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows.Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, bysetting it aside and letting pride and perspiration comefirst.”

“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace, stubborn tradition, regulation by custom, organic knowledge instead of mechanistic science -- had to be steadily and systematically disrupted and displaced. All of the practices that kept the individual from being a consumer had to be done away with so that the cogs and wheels of an unfettered machine called "the economy" could operate without interference, influenced merely by invisible hands and inevitable balances and all the rest of that benevolent free-market system guided by what Cobbett called, his lip curled toward Hume and James Steuart and Adam Smith, "Scotch Feelosophy.”

“What's the point of having a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?”

“Love God and love neighbor. Simple, straightforward, no frills. When you remember the basics, everything else eventually falls into place.”