Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.