I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.