“Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.”

“What should I do?""Throw up in your typewriter every morning.""Yeah.""Clean up every noon.”

“It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed.”

“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!”

“Good to evil seems evil.”

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.”