You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.