The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.