Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.