“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”

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

“You can fool too many people, too much of the time.”

“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.”

“In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.”

“Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted.”

“One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.”