Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.