I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.