Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life’s cruel trick.

Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.