To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.