If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.