“For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.”

“When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!”

“We must, we must, we must increase our bust.”

“In the next 25 years, we will see a 100 percent increase in the number of American retirees. The number of workers, however, will increase by only 15 percent. Given those numbers, how can these programs survive? Under our current tax code, these programs can be maintained only by increasing the tax on those who work, reducing benefits for those who have retired or by increasing the age of retirement.”

“I quickly tried to do the math but my brain was a jumbled mess and I couldn’t remember what number comes after potato!”

“At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.”