“Men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total stranger we perceive man himself; the image of God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of the wisdom of a moustache.”

“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”

“Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”

“Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.”

“Even soldiers in battle have to be brought to a special state of mental excitement to shoot total strangers.”

“Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”

“[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.”

“Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
Sadly, it wasn’t even a record.”

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”