Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.