I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

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

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

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.