There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.

…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.