How quickly I could clean this desk," she thought, "if only the wastebasket were larger. - R. A. Lafferty

When Dotty learned of Keen’s advent she was desolate, but in her own fashion. Dotty’s emotions were in rational balance and larded with enough humor to keep them from sticking to the pan. The insistence that humor is the core of the soul, even in the middle of trial and tragedy, stayed with Dotty through all the months that followed, which were filled with shock after shock. She tried to fight back with prayer, patience, exposition, common sense, murder, flight, but also with humor. Always with humor.

A newspaper man has got to know when to keep his mouth and his mind shut. You might end up dead.

We have run out of tricks, but the people haven't run out of expecting tricks.