“Some long ago when we were taughtThat for whatever kind of puzzle you gotYou just stick the right formula inA solution for every fool”

“Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution -- even if it's right in front of your nose.”

“I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.”

“Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.”

“There are days when you wonder why these wretched old tatters of paper run my life. It's just leftover scraps from vanished lives, right? And they seem to control your every waking thought, all of your movements, even how you breathe, sometimes, with the fragile stuff. Your whole life. But then something comes along, a clue or sometimes the solution to a puzzle, and it sets you on fire!”

“He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious fool with just a thin veneer of cordiality that the Right produces by the dozen and which the Left reproduces and imitates whenever they're in power, as if they were the victims of some form of contagion.”