I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.

Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.