No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!