“I can’t say I altogether blame the man (which is doubtless a great relief to his mind).”
“I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind.”
“Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?”
“a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.”
“Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself”
“Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass?”