We really try to have only one new particle per paper.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

There will be difficulties to face on the way to being successful. You can weather the storms.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.