On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

-Austen,Jane
Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.6.

I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldöand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.

-Keenan, Brian
  Said on his release, BBC  T V, 25  Aug.

But plots come fromöGod knows where. They can't be summoned at will.Theycome reluctantly, unexpectedly, stealthily, when you have given up hope of them ever paying you a visit.

-Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford
  'A Plot at Last', in Brown and Munro (eds)  Writers Writing (1993).