These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Sometimes, crazy is exactly what we need.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

I think that's part of people wanting a wholesome life, to surround yourself with farm animals and fields. That's sort of an American ideal.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.