Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.

I like your glasses, ” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me... Cather.

In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring

I don't really know who I am, and I don't know when to stop, so if I see a great big threatening button that should never ever be touched I just want to do this!

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.