If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.