Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.