“Non-Masons stay pretty much in the dark about What Goes On, though now and then something jumps out, exposes itself, jumps giggling back again, leaving you with few details but a lot of Awful Suspicions.”

“So, what are you?"
"What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.”

“Remember me? I'm the one who burned your house down
…But I'm out now
And this time I'm coming back to blow your house up
And I ain't gonna leave you with a window to jump out of!”

“Kafka taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. […] He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.”

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”

“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”

“When you jump up the Earth wants you back.”

“When you have to jump, you jump.”

“I jumped out the Lincoln, left him stinkin', put his brains in the street, now you can see what he was just thinkin”