“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

“He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly...”

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”

“Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.”

“Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were all around, but living people saw them no more than they could smell most of the ten thousand aro...”

“I guess a sock is also a geometric shapetechnicallybut I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”