“If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”
“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”
“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. ”
“If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination.”
“Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.”