If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

"It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate." "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. "Exactly, my lord."

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.