Quotes
“How long have we been friends, Dan?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”
p. 166
“You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.”
p. 67
As a guest, Emily Price had three main drawbacks: she was incapable of saying please, incapable of saying thank you and incapable of saying sorry, all the while creating a surge in the demand for these expressions.
Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.
He liked slim books which he could slip into his overcoat pocket and leave there unread for months. What was the point of a book if you couldn’t carry it around with you as a theoretical defence against boredom?
No man is an island — although one’s known a surprising number who own one.
When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.
“Your beauty leaves me breathless,” said Pereban.
“Yet you find the breath to say so.”
p. 161
There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
p. 49
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,"Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry."
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
I could never mix in the common murmur of that rising generation against monogamy, because no restriction on sex seemed so odd and unexpected as sex itself.
