Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?