“To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”
“I’m a door-to-door salesman. I sell doors. If I can’t knock on yours, because you don’t have a door to knock on, I know you’ll be interested in what I’m selling.”
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire willpower, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.”
“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.”
“If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.”
“For years after my father left us for Belladonna, I had looked for him... the last time someone had seen them, they were living on a duck's back.”