There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.