Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

We are getting older fatter and balder. Each day brings us one step closer to death. Other than that, life's a ding-a-derry.

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.