Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.

An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Don't think OF the market. Think AS the market.

In the end is my beginning.