Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.