"This book is the story of a young man who came to America to make a living, and simply happened to do so in a profession which he helped to create."

"A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain."

"Major Sánchez grunted. “Nice word, ‘trivial.’ Means you got it—cojones—you got no worry. If you don’t—"

"Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible."

"Hey, Jimmie! The Chimney Sweeps. Talk to the Sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please come help me up, H…"

"What distinguishes an argument from a play upon words, is that the latter cannot be translated."

"We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Therefore, a…"