I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

We can fill our lives with ‘stuff, ’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.

What isn't remembered never happened.Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.