Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

To be communal is to be something fallacious. It is to be something more or less than being, a subjugation or propagation of the self to exist within the external condition.

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing

The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.