Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave.

It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily

With…love of wind, there is no surer test of genuine Nature instinct that this. Any body can love sunshine.

There is divinity in the clouds.

Is love always like this? Is it always so passionate, yet so damn painful?

He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.