I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.