A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

Defiance through compliance.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.