Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!