“Take deedsAway.Play musicplease.”

“The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.”

“Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.”

“When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“Not using that handy maxim a man is what he makes his dough at and alas how much. Sometimes it is a gentle gesture to remind people of their big time possibilities. Makes them like you.”

“You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”

“Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”