All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

anger is more productive than fear.

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.

The value of friendship is based on a solid underline friendship.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.