What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

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.

A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!

You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.