I haven't ever seen 'Lost'... I'm sorry.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not...

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat anymore because he...

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Harriet, to hide her excitement, had turned to the bookshelves in the corner between the windows and the fireplace. The books, untidily arranged, some standing, some piled on their sides, with...

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an...

Charm is an elusive quality. Some have it; no teacher can afford to be without it. Teachers who lack charm must resort to violence....

She's been, but she's coming back, he said. I expect her every minute. Ah! there she is. This was rather stupid of Stephen. He ought to have guessed that Lucia's second appearance was officially...

You see, there is a major downfall to living in a tourist town. You guessed it, the constant turnover of new people. You cannot really connect with anyone because no one is ever here for more than two...

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

Here's the deal. We go in, you stand there like the asshole you are, and I explain you aren't gay lovers with the pharmacist. Sound good? Dove clicked her blinker on and checked her side mirror. All I...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate...

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!

But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit...

That's just a fiction, a little game of protocol.

I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge - when time is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment - whether some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously it is not 100 percent infallible but, by...