I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .