pushing buttons...

"Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on."
Camryn Manheim

(if only i could keep in mind: "your children are not your children, blah..blah...blah..." )


"The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons."
W. C. Fields


"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen".
Theophile Gautier


"When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, ''Not if it was buttoned up' "
Dorothy Parker



"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
Simone de Beauvoir

(or at least freedom...even if opaque.)