Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

Whatever the outcome of the day I shall never forget that you hit me when I wasn't even looking!

You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.