Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

I listen to all sorts of things. I get kind of embarrassed with my iPod, because I am a top-40 type of girl; I am not the kind of person to introduce people to new music.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.