I have given up attempting to plumb the depths of the female psyche, Watson. It is not unlike contemplating infinity--a worthy, even a spiritual meditation, destined from the beginning to fail entirely.

I looked up in curiosity. Behind us stood the Brown and Eagle Wool Warehouse and Schneider's Cap Factory, both constructed with that wholehearted devotion to industry that sullied the word architecture.

The door flew open, revealing a wrinkled, forward-thrusting face wreathed with a nimbus of wispy white hair, a face resembling nothing so much as a mole emerging from its burrow. Her spectacles were so dirty that I could hardly see the use of them. She peered at us as if at two scabrous street dogs and tightened her grasp on her cane.
"What do you want? I don't let rooms, and if you've business with my sons or my husband, they work for a living.

We had a lot on our list to accomplish this season. (Beating) Valdosta was one of those. They kept us from doing what we wanted to do in the past. Not in our house.

That was huge. Being down by one goal rather than two, emotionally it's a big difference, because we've been down by one goal in our past history, and we can definitely come back from that.

That's not going to happen. You become smarter. You learn from your mistakes. It's not going to happen a third time.