California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Leave at night and you reach Australia next morning. But it took 28 years for an Indian PM to come to Australia!

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.