There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

art, n. This word has no definition.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.