Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.

But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with.

If you want innovation, growth, and culture, invest in people, not technology. Technology can't lead, love, or connect.

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.