Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.

Future is a car with brake failure

What is the key to life on Earth?

Evil draws men together.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

If you don't value your time, neither will others.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.