'… du gehst einen Feldweg entlang, läßt dich von ihm führen.'

'This is how things are.'

Placemaking, a very refined excuse for eating hot dogs.

'Why are you doing this? I'm getting out.'

'One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.'

I bought peanuts, but they were unsalted, so I put salt on them, I'm a problem solver.

I feel I can't complain enough about the lifeless book I'm reading. I hold this too against the book; a better one, still bad, would free me to vent and get on with it.

'The clearest progress in philosophy is at the level of individuals…'

'He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key with the world's character, and in his heart considers them incompetent and "not in it," in the philosophic business, even tho they may far excel him in dialectical ability.'