If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.