When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe.

Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.