Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.
I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.
Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
My days are as long as despair can make them.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.
Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.
Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.
Damn, this op has been like a fucking episode.
