These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.

Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.

Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.