Principal Totty was one of those people who frown while they’re speaking, and then smile at the end of each sentence. It was weird. It was like there were two different people inside her brain.

Like some huge, mutant chicken–I sat there hatching a gas-egg the size of a planet.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.