“Denial and affirmation are games which people play.There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.”

“Why do we insist on putting limitations on what people are capable of doing?”

“He refused tea, but Mrs. Crowley poured out a cup and handed it to him. 'You need not drink it, but I insist on your hoding it in your hand. I hat people who habitually deny themselves things.”

“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types.""Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness!”

“The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.”

“Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.”