From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''''I just applied for a job as a tree, '' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

THINK, and do not sacrifice yourself to mathematical magic.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.