People take power trips at the most inopportune times.

His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood.

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.

He had a bushy unibrow that could house a family of quail.

She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.