“It gives you the impression of an escaped lunatic's conversation while chasing his hat on a windy day.”
“Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!”
“A brick could replace the cardboard bill on a baseball cap. On a windy day, no gust will knock your hat off. ”
“You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All writers are lunatics!”
“That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl”
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”