Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

Just close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, `There's no place like home.'

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

You don't move to Edina, you achieve Edina.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, *we* go.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

What!? Me worry?

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion.

I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that it is scraping the top of the barrel.

When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to

A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)

Bingo, gas station, hamburger with a side order of airplane noise, and you'll be Gary, Indiana.

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.