They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some. . . anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations.
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.