I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper

It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.

You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]