Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.

Every brick being thrown at me I will use to build my Empire!

rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon.

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

How long can you keep me invisible?" "As long as were in physical contact." My throat felt dry. "Holding hands?" That's how we'd done it last time. "Unless you had something else in mind?

Balance is overrated.