“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“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!”

“I do not dispute with the world, it is the world that disputes with me. A speaker of Dhamma does not dispute with anyone in the world.”

“No domestic dispute between Franny and David had inspired the removal of their wedding rings. She would take hers off at work when she was giving scalp massages. Once she thought she had lost the ring, but she found it in the treatment room on a candleholder David had made for her during a personal failure of a pottery class he had taken the year he lost his job. After she found her ring, she started leaving it at home.”

“He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.”

“I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.”