“You know, that might be the answer — to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.”

“Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.”

“We never know if our prayers will be answered? Whether our hopes will be realized? Will all our efforts pay off? But what we do know for sure is that as long as we don't give up, we will never fail.”

“It might have meant something, or it might not have. That was the thing about uncertainty, you were never sure.”

“There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.”

“There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.”

“Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.”

“The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.”

“I know that it is the Socialist idea that making profits is a vice, and that making large profits is something of which a man ought to be ashamed. I hold the other view. I consider that the real vice is making losses.”

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”