Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
Shrews are made, not born.
I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.