Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
A nut is someone whose noose broke.
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"
Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.
Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?