"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)

"I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian)."
— Elizabeth Peters

"If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers. Eight o'clock. Day one!"
— David Warner as the Evil Genius from the film "Time Bandits"

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not posses them needs religion."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?"
"You're exactly my brand of heroin."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)