The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.