Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Everybody's got their troubles.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.