Current mood:	different
Current music:	Led Zeppelin, "Communication Breakdown"

quoted phrases as words
I wonder why nobody uses constructs like this:

If he didn't project such "I'm better than you, my time is more valuable"ness, he would be more fun to work with.

Okay, I can make a guess: it is particularly difficult to read, and unlike parenthetical comments it actually does flow within the content of the main outer sentence. But the quoted phrase is effectively an adjective, so the -ness suffix makes some sense to me.

Yes, I do think about these things, and no, I'm not about to make a habit out of utilizing such constructions. Very often. But one should experiment with language now and then.