My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.