“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

“It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.”

“What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.”

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”

“The lowest ebb brings the highest tide.”

“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.”