Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

By all that was holy, he wanted to kiss every inch of her at least a thousand times.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

My husband knows me better than anyone.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Young people are just smarter.

Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.