take words and make them useful, ' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die.

They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.