If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.