American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.