It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.