If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

I used the boos, and not the booze, as motivation. That led to applause, which I drank up like an alcoholic. I need a refill.

La loyauté de chacun d'eux —dont personne ne doutait— serait garantie par la présence des autres.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,a medley of extemporanea,And love is a thing that can never go wrong,and I am Marie of Romania.