What the dev— er, deuce did you do that for? It hurt!”“Good, ” said the angel. “I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough.

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.

Did he know she could barely think, let alone speak, for awareness of proximity of his fingers?Of course he knew. He was a rake. This is what he did.

I was shy, ” said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side.

Do you think ladies’ eyebrows can communicate as well?” she asked.“No, they don’t have sufficient thicketry, ” he said with authority.“Thicketry?”“Yes, that is the official term.

Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time.

A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

I know nothing about technology.

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.