God damn it, you've got to be kind.

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.