Brian Reid

“When Myra appeared she said at once, "Now, we want you boys to go on playing around just as if we weren't here." The first evening, he stayed out for poker with the guides, and she said in placid merriment, "My! You're a regular bad one!" The second evening, she groaned sleepily, "Good heavens, are you going to be out every single night?" The third evening, he didn't play poker.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is—a business administration !”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt