We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.