“It was difficult to image quite where this gentleman [a statue] could have come from: he was a little too cheerful for a saint in a church and not quite comical enough for a coffee-house sign.”

“Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.”

“Yeah, but where I come from, we have lights at night." "We do, too. They are called stars. They are quite romantic.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in a woman.”

“He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.”