The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

The important thing to remember is not to forget

ONLY’ having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives…

My wife was saying to me just the other day how she’s noticed a spring in my step lately. That was because I thought you were gone forever.’ ‘I missed you too, Thurid.

The guy’s life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Well we can’t be having that. One person starts having fun and it turns into an epidemic. Difficult to stop that kind of thing, you know.

Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they’re not quite comfortable.

‘Venti caramel macchiato, please,’ he said. ‘Hold the snobbery.’ The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. ‘You sure? We’re having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place,...

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

If sex were shoes, I’d wear you out. But I wouldn’t wear you out in public.

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

For a split second, I wondered if he were some type of sexy sorcerer, who was able to remove my clothing by the force of his will alone. I squeezed my eyes shut and focused...

Don’t let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

Graham’s life is as tense as an overstretched simile.

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can’t lick.

If you can’t be yours while being mine, maybe you aren’t as yours as you’d like to convince yourself that you are.

Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning

Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ‘Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.

Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.

What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in – forget algebra and history.

Childhood is either absurdly superficial or profoundly shitty. There’s no in-between. Anyone who reminisces about their happy childhood is delusional.

The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy,...

Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.

You promise?””I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Displacement of ‘What goes around, comes around’ is Zero.

Wise are my ways witty my actions

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books.

Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

Remember, crowd doesn’t care about common sense.

This is the fast lane, folks…and some of us like it here.

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.

If girlfriends were knees, I’d love to have both of mine replaced. That way, it’d be easier to run around on them.

He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now.

Dead yet?” Gus answered.I smirked. “Not yet, but the night’s still young.””Here’s hoping.

This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? I myself have no opinion....

Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male- I hesitate to say ‘man’- or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations...

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

I’m almost finished,” said Wilhelm, wiping out a line with his sleeve and drawing over it.”I never doubted you for a moment,” said Vex, then looked at Aurora and spoke more softly. “I actually doubted...

Quote from In Love of Honey, Money….and My Virgin PassportIf you think you’ve the most wicked sense of humour, try life!

My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend torepeat them.

Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster...

Papa, I’m ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I’m not a child or a baby anymore, so I’m allowed to speak my mind. And...

And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It’s as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what...

But have you ever seen one?….They shook their heads. “Not Physically, no. But if you look at this passage – “Man, she liked that Bible. I’d read it and could definitely understand it’s appeal, but...

Please don’t arrest me.””Listen to me, I’m not going to arrest you, ok? I’m not a cop.””Are you sure?””Am I sure I’m not a cop? yes, I’m sure.””You could be undercover.

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave — with...

It was the day he learned that smart, witty girls were brighter than sunlight.