The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts.

And the reason I'm telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.