The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
No man does right by a woman at a party.
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.