Abigail

“He took Mother for a ride in his first automobile, some early ancestor of Foolish Carriage. As Dad and Mother, dressed in dusters and wearing goggles, went scorching through the streets of Boston, bystanders tossed insults and ridicule in their direction...
..."Say, Noah, what are you doing with that Ark?"
That did it. Dad slowed the car and cocked his checkered cap belligerently over one eye.
"Collecting animals like the good Lord told me," he screamed back. "All I need is a jackass. Hop in.”
― Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

“Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone.”
― Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces