“I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
“I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.”
“I don't like being talked into things by ungraceful people.”
“I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”
“I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.”
“If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.”