His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

I have always maintained that a man can be as good or bad depending upon his life-partner.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring A lot of Batman fans might say that.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.