“Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.”
“Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two works better than those.”
“Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.”
“There is no better way to understand your own motives and dispositions than by finding someone to act as your opposite.”
“It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.”
“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”