Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.