“The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

“Postscript: H - Bring warm clothes and a cat”

“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”

“It was like watching a dear friend go insane.”

“I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.”

“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing.”

“Sometimes, nothing is the best thing to chase," said Jelem."Drothe's 'nothings' usually carry swords," said Degan, "and come with several well-armed friends.”