“I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!”
“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.”
“And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.”
“It's curious that I can't stomach half an hour of television, in general, but I can spend the better half of an hour watching water fall from the heavens. Why do you suppose that is?”
“I don't want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much.”
“But I did consider you," Peter assured me. "For quite a while. About half an hour. Beatrix wasn't too happy with me.”