“Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.”
“You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.”
“In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown”
“Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.”
“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”
“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”