They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.