The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

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

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

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

The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

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