Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

At least you pay for them.”

“I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue.”

“I didn’t expect you to populate your own orphanage,” she said.

One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.