“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.”

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”

“Daily dawns another day;I must up, to make my way.Though I dress and drink and eat,Move my fingers and my feet,Learn a little, here and there,Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,Hear a song, or watch a stage,Leave some words upon a page,Claim a foe, or hail a friend-Bed awaits me at the end.”

“I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.”

“Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.”

“Accursed from their birth they beWho seek to find monogamy,Pursuing it from bed to bed—I think they would be better dead.”

“Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.”