people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Now me, ” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot, ” he added, helpfully.

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people, " he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

I have always felt, ” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet!

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.