What ho!" I said."What ho!" said Motty."What ho! What ho!""What ho! What ho! What ho!"After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all.

Come on, " he said. "Bring the poker."I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it.

The truth doesn't mind being told every once in a while.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

To secure his king's trust, his family's future, and perhaps even his own happiness, he needed to convince her he was more than a mercenary -- in fact, a man who would stand by her side.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.