
“It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.”
Bill Budd, on the ship's gruel.
Billy Budd (1962)
Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)
“It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.”
Bill Budd, on the ship's gruel.
Billy Budd (1962)
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
Source: The Jungle
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
“And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”
Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales