It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.