isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.