There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.