“There's no need to hear gossip about government. It'll only give you gas.”

“There were a great many jokes about the disaster (house falling on and killing Wicked Witch of the East), naturally. "You can't hide from desinty, that house had her name on it" "That Nessarose, she was giving such a good speech about religious lessons, she really brought down the house!" "Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes, but sometimes HOME DOESN'T LIKE IT." "What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house?" "One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches." "What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?”

“There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.”

“I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!”

“The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And they break their word.”

“You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch.”

“But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women.”