“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”

“Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.”

“He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.”

“If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love”

“No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another”

“I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.”