“Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.”

“I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.”

“It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.”

“Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.”

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.”

“The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked to Kuch's. They said to one another, What a character he is, Otto, strictly old c...”