It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

The way you look at the world determines how creative you can be.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.