Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.