Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.'In short, we've voted you out of the family, ' Daffy said. 'It was unanimous.

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Lita on the other hand, she's rated NC-17, which means No Cold sores in 17 days.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.