“Cool Papa was so fast that he could turn off the light switch and get into bed before the room got dark.”

“It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.”

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ”

“In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left.
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune,
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room.”

“No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

“You don't need to turn the light switch on and off, again! You have absolutely NAILED DOWN the principle finding of that experiment; when you turn the lights off, daddy can't see ANYTHING. He steps on your toys trying to find you and kill you… And breaks his foot!”

“… nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.”

“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed.”

“You've got a blank face there pal, if you hold that expression for long enough you'd get fucking switched off.”

“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said”