I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.