I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can’t afford me.

Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown

It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

In the beginning of a movie, they don't tell you what's going to happen. You just have to wait and go on the adventure with them

Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.