There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The plural of spouse is spice.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.