“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

“You can only grieve so much; after that it’s self pity.”

“We have as much evidence that T. rex was feathered, at least during some stage of its life, as we do that australopithecines like Lucy had hair.”

“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

“Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.”

“God speaks only in the suffering of creatures, a suffering that the hearts of the unbelievers do not have because they become more and more hardened.”

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”

“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.”

“Becoming more callous and hardened when God thunders verbally from heaven, they obstinately persist in their rebellion. It is only when actually smitten by his hand that they are forced, whether they will or not, to fear. This fear the sacred writers term servile, and oppose to the free and voluntary fear which becomes sons.”