“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ”

“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.”

“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.”

“Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a complete map of this world already grafted onto the folds of your cerebellum and you are just spending your entire life figuring out how to access this map?”

“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. ”

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.”

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”