You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?