It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

Conflict is the very essence of life.