Quiet, ” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.

I was going to become a human sand burger.

It was as if she was a wannabe Persian cat who had just tasted sour milk.

Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’ list, which currently contained fainting and my ability to find trouble.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

God, I felt as if I had just been flattened by ‘Elmer’ the elephant.

Quiet, � she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love, she gives it an eternal form.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in the wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industry that is in the process of coming to light.

Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

I don't fear God- I fear His believers.