I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates with me incredibly. And I was an outsider. So I know very much about that.

Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.