No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.
In the temple of science are many mansions. . . and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.