“I am very good at groveling.”

[Jamie, Walker, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/from-young-lib-to-senate-linchpin/story-e6frg6p6-1111116755879, From brash Young Liberal to Senate linchpin for Nick Xenophon, The Australian, June 28, 2008, 2009-11-18]

On his family
Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story

The Observer (p. 113)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
Interview (2003).

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

Meet Magnus Carlsen, The New King of Chess - TIME, Eben Harrell Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948809,00.html

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)
Context: I am inclined to doubt that anything very resembling formal logic could be a good model for human reasoning. In particular, I doubt that any logic that prohibits self-reference can be adequate for psychology: no mind can have enough power — without the power to think about Thinking itself. Without Self-Reference it would seem immeasurably harder to achieve Self-Consciousness — which, so far as I can see, requires at least some capacity to reflect on what it does. If Russell shattered our hopes for making a completely reliable version of commonsense reasoning, still we can try to find the islands of "local consistency," in which naive reasoning remains correct.

Source: Clockwork Princess