What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Not to sound, you know, like a dick," Jack said carefully. "But you just dragged us out of bed to show us Jane's messy room? That's not really an emergency Mae."
"She's not here!" Mae shouted, gesturing to the mess around her. "That's the emergency." 
"Again, not to be a dick, but that's not really an emergency." Jack said.

Lydia, I couldn't figure you out with a four hundred page manual and a telephone help line.

I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute."

"Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.

Most of them just don't want to take math and geometry and the other courses to get a degree. They want to learn to build boots and saddles and go home.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?