“It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.”

“Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.”

“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.”

“The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.”

“A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.”

“Kudra was amused by Alobar's tentative polka until her eyes fell upon the tumescent protrusion dancing with him. Disgusting she thought. An erection is just inappropriate. Then she realized with a shock that she was so wet that children could have sailed toy boats in her underpants.”

“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…”