East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.