It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. - Dorothy Parker

If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care. <small>p. 277</small>

72 suburbs in search of a city

You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third act, you wish you hadn't come. And Tillie, may I mention in passing, has four acts. <small>p. 64</small>