Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.