It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

A good story should change the way you see the world.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.