“A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.”
“He would not have been the first man to find that he loved his wife more when he was parted from her than was with her, and that the expectation of sexual congress was more exciting than the realisation.”
“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”
“...the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.”
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to gain.”