I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

Philosophy is for the few.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.