It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.