Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.