Wit — lines worth keeping

Every writer is a thief.

We're all mad here.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

Don't Panic.

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks he could be the baddest man in the world.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

We all float down here.

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Going outside is highly overrated.

I'm going to have to science the hell out of this.

The truth is fluid. There is always another way to spin the story.

Sometimes reading a book is like being in a relationship.

She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page.