We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.