Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.

From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

For some miracles can only occur in the dark.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

Life is too precious to be left to chance

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

never trust a Troglotroll

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

You're my rain, Eric. You've been keeping me safe before I even knew you.

This country was seriously divided.

I think Calvin [Klein] is a minimalist.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

No author ever spar'd a brother.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.