In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

He who hesitates is lost

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

They're book addicts.