Quotes about Knobs

The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.

Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.