“Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”

“Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [...] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary defines it as 'a succession of drops falling from the eaves, eavesdrop, cavesdrop.' I remember having encountered it for the first time in a poem by Thomas Hardy. The bright frost has eternalized the bright eavesdrop.”

“It's time to accept the outside world for what it is and time to explore the inside or your own head for what is there.”

“There's no Saints; everyone lies. Everybody betrays everybody sooner or later too. The quicker you get that through your head, the better."From "Hostages”

“Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.”

“And then a throb hits you on the left ide of the head so hard that your head bobs to the right...There's no way that came from inside your head, you think. That's no metaphysical crisis. God just punched you in the face.”