Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.