My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Learning continuously is the best way to build one's intellectual capacity.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.