Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.