WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it’s possible I look like a total moron.

Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.

August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Sometimes I feel like I'm being watched, but then I remember that my show was canceled three years ago.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.