- Vryling Buffam: I was told once, by a clergyman, that I should repent my sins. Otherwise, I would be pursued by the devil. Oh, a sort of spiritual Wells Fargo, I said. He promptly went silent, like patience, on a monument. Appalled but dumb.
- Emily Dickinson: For the lost soul, there will be no tomorrow.
- Vryling Buffam: For the lost soul, today is quite enough.
- Emily Dickinson: Oh I shall miss you if you ever go! Your honesty is sublime.
- Vryling Buffam: In the long term, honesty is not the best policy!
- Emily Dickinson: Is dishonesty?
- Vryling Buffam: I prefer to call it diplomacy. That way, one can turn a tactical defeat into a victory.
- Emily Dickinson: Who proposed that?
- Vryling Buffam: Oh, I don't know. Probably George Washington, as he was crossing the Delaware, the wrong way. Now, my own. I must fly.
- Emily Dickinson: Drive carefully, and don't do anything against god.
- Vryling Buffam: I'll stop yodeling then.
- Emily Dickinson: Very wise.
- Emily Dickinson: We outgrow love like other things. And put it in the drawer. Till it an antique fashion shows. Like costumes grandsires wore.