Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.