Harry, " she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, " I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."Wizards don't giggle, " I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.

You're such a cynic, " Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, " Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

Love dissolves the separation between ‘you’ and ‘me’.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.