The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

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

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.