“He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.”
“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”
“He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined...”
“Then what he said and how he said it won't be important any more. What will be important are all the things you never got to say.”
“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”
“He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.”