“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen.”

“Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.”

“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.”

“I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device”

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

“It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. ”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”