Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

I change the world, the world changes me.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.