“People who use the word "class" haven't any.”

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”

“There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world. We could use their anger. And we could use the honest rage of those historians who haven't written a line for forty years. True, we might form classes in thinking and reading.”

“According to Marcie's mom, only people with no class actually use the word class. If you have it, then you never talk about it.""Oh". Johnny nodded slowly. "Just like herpes.”

“Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.”

“Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.”