This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the “activist clubs, ” and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future.

When you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public – because increasingly, it is.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.