A woman should be an illusion

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.