One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Waiting so long... for 0 result?

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.