[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.