“Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.”

“penitence is more attainable than permission.”

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

“And fairly enough she thought, for that was the way of the world. A road was to be driven upon. The candy dish was there to be eaten, money in the bank got spent, people claimed whatever they could get their hands on. Wasn't that more or less automatic? For a human being to do any less seemed impossible.”

“Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.”

“Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.”

“Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”