“If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight...”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“If some men think they've been outdone by a woman, well, they hit back with the best weapon they have. And that's to put you in your place and let you think you only have one use in life.”
Source: Enter My Jungle
“I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“I doubt she'll welcome you if I tell her you undressed me."
"Maybe she'll only partially welcome me."
Smart-ass.”
Source: Poison Princess
“Marriage is powerful because even if we have no one else, we still have a built-in support ‘network’ (because spouses fulfil so many different roles): someone who looks out for our health, happiness and survival!”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.”
Source: Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories
“I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right," George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.”
Source: The Apprentices
“I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today.”
Source: Escape from the Pipe Men!
“A head began emerging out of the darkness. It had two large antennae growing out of its forehead, with nothing recognizable as eyes. A mouth in the middle of its face opened in what I hoped was a smile. At least there weren't any sharp teeth.”
Source: Escape from the Pipe Men!