“Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”

“Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply."Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember--he's only a machine, just an imperfect mirror of ourselves. We made him what he is--the disease, the cancer."There was nothing else to say, because that left only cursing ourselves, and we were already cursed.”

“In life's brief game to be a winnerA man must have...oh yes, aboveAll else, of course, someone to love.”

“The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.”

“Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.”

“Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches? "Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...”