“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”
“Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.”
“You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you?”
“We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.”