It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.