Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.

Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.