There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.