“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”

“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds. ”

“If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”

“...but if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.”

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”