“I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.”

“Very fine law,” said Stuart. “When I am Chairman, anybody who is mean to anybody else is going to catch it.”

“There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.”

“You're terrific as far as I am concerned.”

“If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”

“I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. ”

“A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be saved, this particular thing, this very tree." If it were to go, all would go -- this city, this mischevious and marvelous monument which not to look upon would be like death.”