The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)

by John D. MacDonald

We are never the best judges of what is meaningful and what is trivial in our lives, I guess. The accidents of time and place change the script, and later we say it happened on purpose.

The early bird who gets the worm works for somebody who comes in late and owns the worm farm.

Carrie was too old for me. Maybe she wasn’t, but she thought she was, which is the same thing.

This whole thing won’t hang together because I don’t know some things I ought to know. That’s always the way it is. When you know enough, all of a sudden you know it all.”