“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.”

“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”

“...like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight...”

“Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.”

“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”

“He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.”

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”