“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn’t luckily have to bother about that.”

“Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.