“It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.”

“It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.”

“She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”

“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence”

“Oh, come off your perch!" said the other man, who wore glasses. "Your premises won't come out in the wash. You wind-jammers who apply bandy-legged theories to concrete categorical syllogisms send logical conclusions skallybootin' into the infinitesimal ragbag. You can't pull my leg with an old sophism with whiskers on it.”

“No friendship is an accident. ”

“He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.”