All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.

A pretty sight, a lady with a book.