There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.