Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

What can I say? Some women are killers.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.