Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.