Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.