People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

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

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.