"A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along."

"Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense."

"If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm..."

"Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death."

"Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening."

"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them."

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed."

"Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose."

"He who doesn't look ahead remains behind."