“A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”

“Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

“There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?”

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable.”

“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

“In faxt, the old Marxist distinctions between productive and unproductive labor, as well as that between productive and reproductive labor, which were always dubious, should now be completely thrown out.”

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

“Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.”

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”