“Perfection should not have come quite so soon.”

“There is a certain way that life ought to be, an ideal way, a perfect way, and there is the way that life is, not quite the opposite of ideal, not quite the opposite of perfect, it just is not quite the way it should be but not quite the way it should not be either; I mean to say that in any situation, only one or two, maybe even three out of ten, things are just what you have been praying for.”

“In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well.”

“So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.”

“I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.”

“So when will be the time to get on the train?I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.”