To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.

No sense in talking tough unless you do it.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths to hide storylines just proves the cache our show has.

Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.