Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

Brunettes are full of electricity.

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

A cat will blink when struck with a hammer.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.