Quotes
Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.
p. 512
As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven’t heard of some of them.
People who had, in the past, suffered from technophobia suffered even more. Others took other positions. Things were not so bad. Things could be worse. Worse things could be imagined. Worse things had been endured and triumphed over, in the past. This was not the worst. The worst was yet to come.
p. 131
"Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis.
"I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce."
Marcel was a modern-day Robin Hood; he would rob from the rich because the poor have no money.
p. 147
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.”
p. 46
She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.
p. 36
His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.
p. 104
Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.
p. 38
Pioneering is an unlimited chance to become the biggest frog, provided the puddle is small enough.
p. 31
An army was the sort of thing everyone wanted to have, so long as it was off doing important things elsewhere.
p. 722
