“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”

“I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.''I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.”

“We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place -- we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.”

“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”

“Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books; we also own assorted beds and tables and chairs and rocking horses and lamps and doll dresses and ship models and paint brushes and literally thousands of socks.”

“Oh Constance, we are so happy.”