“Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.”

“Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men.”

“Women are books, and men the readers be...”

“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

“The sun, moon, and stars God gave to the world, but He embedded their glories in your countenance just for me. Woven in your hair are the sun's shimmering golden rays. From your face glows the pale luminescence of the moon. And in your eyes God sprinkled a million stars to twinkle against a backdrop of endless night. You are my celestial light.”

“Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!'How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?”