Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Me neither, ” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”“I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, ” Amelie said.

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.

... privation is the source of appetite.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.