From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

To hell with the rich, they make me sick.

I love his makeup. He brings a lot of class. He never makes excuses. He always has a smile on his face from one at-bat to the next. He's a real professional.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn’t have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn’t seem to be really trying.