Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you'll never be sorry for taking.

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.