Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.