“Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.”

“Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.”

“I don't remember any blue poodles.”

“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”

“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”

“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”

“There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.”