“You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinati...”

“And when the sun sets...then the night magic spreads out above your head; worlds and universes a-borning and a-dyingstars and planets and galaxies. And the bigger the telescope they can make, and t...”

“No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never...”

“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment w...”

“Drab and colorless as her existence would seem to have been, Mrs. Harris had always felt a craving for beauty and color and which up to this moment had manifested itself in a love for flowers....Ou...”

“No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.”

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

“Some things dont just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.”

“For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.”

“Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.”

“You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and that will make you pretty in anyone's book.”

“Cut anyone and everyone out of your life that makes you feel small, hurt, humiliated, stupid, worthless, etc. do it swiftly and violently and without remorse.”

“Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world.”

“His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his closet door to discover that Zap the Cat, having penetrated the security of Vorkosigan House thr...”

“Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world.”