Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

It’s not the application that is stopping people from using timeless knowledge passed on to us, it’s the acknowledging part.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.

I'd like to go out for a cocktail... or seven.

It's awesome where I am right now. It's a lot of people's dream. I'm going to take full advantage of it.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.