"I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening."

“Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.”

Source : Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.159, Macmillan

“I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.”

“"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.”

“There are some things to die for but none to kill for.”

“I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.”

Source : "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. January 11, 2002.

“Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?”

“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.”

“On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt