Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Push something in someone’s face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.