I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.

We wonder to write.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.