Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.