When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.