“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”

“That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.”

“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.”

“It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.”

“The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.”

“For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.”