“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

“She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.”

“People nowadays seemed to resent the railroads for abandoning romantic steam power in favor of diesel. People didn't understand the first goddamned thing about running a railroad. A diesel locomotive was versatile, efficient, and low-maintenance. People thought the railroad owed them romantic favors, and then they belly ached if a train was slow. That was the way most people were—stupid.”

“That was the way most people were - stupid.”

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it.”

“Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.”