“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”

“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.”

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

“She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.”

“There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.”

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”