Quotes
One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find.
p. 135
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.
No one knew, but it cannot be stressed too frequently, that for effective incantation knowledge is neither necessary nor assumed.
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
“I've invented a new definition for TV,” he muttered gloomily. “I've decided it’s a device for hindering communication between artist and audience.”
My wish for you two young scholars is that you may never lack a superior whose wits are duller than your own. No salve for pride is better than that. Ch. I
There are girls, few perhaps but to be found if one searches carefully, who when their advice is ignored and disaster ensues, do not say "I told you so". Mavis was not of their number.
It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
