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'Co-operation makes many things possible. Co-operation introduces a factor which is greater than the sum of its parts. [...] Such a tremendous thing - the ability to co-operate... It makes you wonder what we could do if we were really to co-operate.'

There is a sense of reason's fingernails scrabbling to keep their hold, as one slides towards something which is not accountable; not, by ordinary standards, quite sane...

I suppose we all have a number of carefully furnished, non-communicating rooms in our minds.

On the principle that if you walk briskly with an air of purpose ninety-nine per cent of the people you meet will assume it is a proper purpose, I did just that.

"The thing is to play your own game - not let the other feller force you to what he wants."

There is a degree of odds against which a gambler becomes just another mug.

"Life isn't very long. You see that plainly when you begin to look at it from the other end. Not time to do very much."

"If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights."

I have been astonished before, and doubtless shall be again, how the kindliest and most sympathetic of women can pettify and downgrade the searing anguishes of childhood.

One got tired, and not infrequently a little stupid, by the end of a shift.

He listened closely, and nodded several times, though not always where a nod seemed appropriate.

"Darling, you're talking as if all normal-length lives were planned. They aren't, you know. People have to learn how to live them—and by the time they find out, they're nearly gone. No time to remedy mistakes.