They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

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.

Life is short, death is forever.

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.