“Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”

“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”

“Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.”

“Cilvēki nezin,ko vēlas,kamēr viņiem to nepiedāvā.”

“At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.”

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”

“The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.”