If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. - Mary McCarthy

It struck her that Norine's apartment was all too populous with 'significant form.' Every item in it seemed to be saying something, asserting something, pontificating. Norine and Put were surrounded by articles of belief, down to the last can of evaporated milk and the single, monastic pillow on the double bed. It was different from Kay's apartment, where the furniture was only asking to be admired ot talked about. But here, in this dogmatic lair, nothing had been admitted that did not make a 'relevant statement,' though what the polar bear was saying Helena could not make out.

If you want to be your own master, his father used to say, always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Extend your antennae, girls.