“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

“My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off" (31).”

“Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.”

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.”

“I hate women because they always remember where things are.”

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