It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

If you only focus on what is, you may never attain what could be. Focus on the possibilities.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today?

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.