"Stand up please, place your hand here, state your name clearly. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh." Part 1, Section 1, pg. 7

"In low dives such as this the burden of birth and education falls from me and I feel, I feel - I don't know what I feel." Part 1, Section 2, pg. 32

"I am just amusing myself, musing, losing myself in a welter of words. For words in here are a form of luxury, of sensuousness, they are all we have been allowed to keep of the rich, wasteful world from which we are shut away." Part 1, Section 2, pg. 38

"I am struck for instance, by the frequent appearance which paintings make in this case." Part 1, Section 4, pg. 61

"She. There is no she, of course. There is only an organization of shapes...