“It's better to swallow pride than blood.”

“You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.”

“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men”

“You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”